The Revd Graham Hamilton (Exeter) to ask the Chair of the House of Bishops:
Q76 Since the enactment of the legislation on consecrating women to the episcopate and the adoption of the Five Guiding Principles for mutual flourishing, how many women have been made bishops, Deans or Archdeacons, and how many traditional Catholic or conservative Evangelicals unable for theological reasons to recognise the priestly or episcopal ministry of women have been appointed to such senior positions?
The Bishop to the Forces to reply as Chair of the Development and Appointments Group on behalf of the Chair of the House of Bishops:
A. With permission, I will answer questions 75 and 76 together.
Since the enactment of the legislation in 2014:
• 22 women have been ordained Bishop;
• 4 women have been appointed Deans
• 23 women have been appointed Archdeacons
• 31 women have been appointed Residentiary Canons
The diversity monitoring data for those appointed to senior roles since that time indicates that:
• 1 diocesan bishop;
• 2 suffragan bishops; and
• 1 archdeacon
identify themselves as either traditional catholic or conservative evangelical. However, the labels which people use to describe their church tradition do not necessarily correlate with whether they are unable for theological reasons to recognise the priestly or episcopal ministry of women.
In other words no one.
Shame on you CofE. General Synod is just a rubber stamping machine for the progressive left.
Anyone in FiF UK who has been keeping up to date with events already knows that no one has been appointed who upholds the correct biblical understanding of holy orders.
The answer given is a poor attempt at a smokescreen by one of welbys minions.
I need to figure out how to give you more than 1 “^”, Fr K.
I’ll happily accept prayer for a righteous bishop to speak out instead! 🙂
“Almighty God, who by thy Son Jesus Christ didst give to thy holy Apostles many excellent gifts, and didst charge them to feed thy flock; Give grace, we beseech thee, to all Bishops, the Pastors of thy Church, that they may diligently preach thy Word, and duly administer the godly Discipline thereof; and grant to the people, that they may obediently follow the same; that all may receive the crown of everlasting glory, through the same thy Son Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen.” (collect from Consecrating a Bishop, US BCP 1928)
Amen!
My question on this:….. of the total of 4 “non ordainers” (or less than 4, note the disclaimer after) who are mutually flourishing with the 80 appointed women, are they counting +Philip North twice? (once as suffragan and then as diocesan, even though he was forced to withdraw) If not, what diocesan could they possibly mean?
80:4 (maybe 4).
Laughable.
It’s good to have an issue on which Anglo-Catholics and evangelicals can unite, even if for different reasons. Now I must leave the computer and go shopping and mutually flourish with the other shoppers.
I must take my sheep to where they will mutually flourish with the shearers.
I’d like to find the exact figures to back this up, but I have read an assertion that in one year the Bishop of Maidstone (who provides episcopal ministry to 130-or-so complementarian parishes) has confirmed more people in one year than some geographical dioceses have in the same period. On that basis, the conservative evangelicals are certainly flourishing a good deal more than the others.
I have also come across the view that the provision within the Church of England for those who could not accept the ordination of women was regarded at the time as palliative care for a dying section of the Church. Well, I am much reminded of the poem by Oliver Goldsmith about a man who was expected to die as a result of a dog-bite. The outcome confounded expectations: ‘the dog it was that died’. It will be the section of the church which affirms the ordination of women that will die out, not the section that doesn’t.