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(71,265 posts) Thu Dec 18, 2014, 12:04 AM Dec 2014

Church of England names its first woman bishop; Libby Lane to assume historic role

Trevor Grundy

CANTERBURY, England (RNS) The Church of England announced on Wednesday (Dec. 17) that Libby Lane, a parish priest from Hale, a small village outside Manchester, would become its first woman bishop, ending centuries of all-male leadership in this country’s established church.

The announcement from Downing Street, the prime minister’s official residence in London, came just a month after changes to canon law making it possible for women to assume the role of suffragan and diocesan bishops.

http://www.religionnews.com/2014/12/17/church-england-names-first-woman-bishop-libby-lane-assume-historic-role/

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