A move by the Archbishops of Canterbury and York to soften the women-bishops legislation, rejected by the General Synod in July last year, might return to the Synod next February.<\/p>\n
The Catholic Group in Synod said on Tuesday that it was likely that the Synod would be invited to debate in February a motion \u201ccalling on the House of Bishops to exercise its powers to amend the Measure in the manner of the amendment jointly proposed by the Archbishops of Canterbury and York\u201d\u009d.<\/p>\n
The Archbishops\u2019 amendment had sought to establish bishops accept\u00c2\u00adable to traditionalists whose auth\u00c2\u00adority was derived from the legisla-tion \u201d\u201d not delegated from the diocesan bishop, who might be a woman, as is proposed in the main Measure. Al\u00c2\u00adthough it was defeated narrowly in the House of Clergy, it nevertheless achieved an overall majority.<\/p>\n