The Archbishops of Canterbury and York have failed in their bid to see through a compromise amendment to legislation on women bishops that would have allowed a male and female bishop to have “co-ordinate” jurisdiction.
The archbishops put forward the amendment in a bid to stop opponents of women bishops from leaving the Church of England.
There is strong opposition to women in the episcopate among conservative evangelical Anglicans and Anglo-Catholics, who believe the consecration of women as bishops goes against Scripture and Jesus’ ordering of His church....