{"id":11229,"date":"2009-02-12T19:58:14","date_gmt":"2009-02-12T19:58:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/reuters_church_of_england_synod_avoids_cataclysm_over_women_bishops\/"},"modified":"2009-02-12T19:58:14","modified_gmt":"2009-02-12T19:58:14","slug":"reuters_church_of_england_synod_avoids_cataclysm_over_women_bishops","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=11229","title":{"rendered":"Reuters: Church of England Synod avoids cataclysm over women bishops"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So the Church of England opted for safety when it met to discuss the next stage in the ordination of women bishops, avoiding the cataclysmic result of a \u201d\u02dcno\u2019 vote.<\/p>\n<p>More than 280 members of the General Synod, or governing body, voted in favour of sending draft legislation and a code of practice to a revision committee, ensuring its continued progress.<\/p>\n<p>The church will still take its time over the legislation, with no woman bishop likely to be installed before 2014.<\/p>\n<p>But as Jonathan Gledhill, Bishop of Lichfield, said: \u201cI believe we must go forward today however slowly the progress may be.\u201d\u009d<\/p>\n<p>Failure to have voted in favour would not have killed off the prospect of women bishops &#8211; as the Archbishop of Canterbury Rowan Williams said on Tuesday, the issue will not go away &#8211; but it could have delayed ordination for many years.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.reuters.com\/uknews\/2009\/02\/11\/synod-avoids-cataclysm-over-women-bishops\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So the Church of England opted for safety when it met to discuss the next stage in the ordination of women bishops, avoiding the cataclysmic result of a \u201d\u02dcno\u2019 vote. More than 280 members of the General Synod, or governing<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=11229\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":794,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36,74,389,635],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11229","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-anglican-episcopal","category-anglican-provinces","category-church-of-england-coe","category-coe-bishops"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11229","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/794"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11229"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11229\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11229"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11229"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11229"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}