women priests
allows women priests and bishops and that we now even have a female
It is a great joy to be part of a ministry team that currently includes four women priests.
women priests and bishops.
Therefore I work to promote those things that maintain unity – for example, whilst I welcome women priests and bishops, I also support the ‘5 guiding principles’ which allow for traditional Catholics and conservative Evangelicals to remain a valued part of the church.
Christian Life and Church: I became a Christian at the age of seven, served as a youth representative for my PCC, my grandpa was a priest, my mum was one of the first women priests, and I have been ordained for 11 years.
Some examples: 1980 and 2000, the introduction of new, alternative, liturgies 1981, permission granted for remarriage of divorcees in church 1994, the ordination of the first women priests, followed in 2015 by the consecration of women bishops 2010, Clergy freehold replaced by Common Tenure bringing ‘professionalisation’ to Parochial ministry: annual reviews, disciplinary procedures, and codes of conduct.