Ordination of Women to the Priesthood and Election and Ordination of Women to the Episcopate (Act 65 - General Synod, 1986)
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- Date
- 1987 February 16-20
- Source
- House of Bishops. Minutes
- Type
- Resolution 30-2-87
- Mover
- Archbishop Hambidge
- Seconder
- Bishop Brown
- Prologue
- Act 65
- AGREED to receive with gratitude a memorial from the House of Bishops about the positive experience in Canada with women in priesthood, and to urge the bishops to carry to the Lambeth Conference conviction that the priesthood of women has indeed been blessed and has enriched our common life, and to ask the Lambeth Conference to search for a way of upholding the unity of the church while allowing provinces to move, as appropriate for them, to the election and ordination of women to the episcopate in response to the call of God and the Church.
- Text of motion
- That Archbishop Bothwell be requested to convey this Resolution of General Synod 1986 and the motion of the House of Bishops, Brandon 1986, to the Lambeth Conference Agenda Planning Committee meeting with a view to its becoming a part of the agenda of the Lambeth Conference 1988. CARRIED
- Subjects
- Ordination of women - Anglican Church of Canada
- Ordination of women - Anglican Communion
- Women clergy - Anglican Church of Canada
- Women bishops - Anglican Communion
- Lambeth Conference, 1988
- Anglican Church of Canada. General Synod (31st : 1986 : Winnipeg, Man.) - Resolutions
- Bothwell, John (John Charles), 1926-2014