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?Women bishops will sink the Church of England as they have done in the Episcopal Church?

By Alliance Alert

David W. Virtue writes at VirtueOnline: "The Synod of the Church of England voted to consecrate women to the episcopacy. They also voted summarily not to allow any sort of delegated episcopal pastoral oversight for Evangelicals and Anglo-Catholics who in conscience do not want to have a woman bishop reign over them . . . So the big question is this, what have women bishops achieved in The Episcopal Church for the last 20 years? . . . 2009 figures, not yet released by the national church, will indicate further decline owing to the emergence on the national scene of the Anglican Church of North America (ACNA) which has siphoned off more than 100,000 Episcopalians in 800 parishes and four dioceses. 2010 will reveal no upward trend . . . "

Full post as published by Constitutionally Correct on July 28, 2010 (boomark / email).