The election has to be confirmed, or could be rejected, by diocesan bishops and diocesan standing comÂmittees. That decision will have very important implications.
[Rowan Williams said]: “The bishops of the Communion have collectively acknowledged that a period of gracious restraint in respect of actions which are conÂtrary to the mind of the CommunÂion is necessary if our bonds of mutual affection are to hold.”
Canon Glasspool, whose late father was an Episcopal priest opÂposed to women’s ordination, won on the seventh ballot, with 153 clergy votes and 203 lay votes. She had enough clergy votes to win by the end of the third ballot, but many Spanish-speaking delegatesat the diocesan convention had supÂported her closest rival, the Revd Irineo Vasquez.
A majority of bishops and standÂing committees of all the dioceses is required to give consent to a bishop’s election within 120 days. The Bishop of Los Angeles, the Rt Revd Jon Bruno, acknowledged at a press conference rumours of “a concerted effort not to give consent”.
The chance of rejection is about equal to Copenhagen’s secret climate protocol passing. And for PRECISELY the same reasons.
I wonder. Is it not possible now that the TEC power structure, looking at its own decline, may have come to the conclusion that Schori’s path and survival are contradictory? The bishops may be indoctrinated but they are neither blind nor stupid. #1 may be right, but I wonder if the winds are not blowing in a new direction. Larry