Women Bishops and the Recognition of Orders

2014 ◽  
Vol 16 (2) ◽  
pp. 187-190
Author(s):  
Will Adam
Keyword(s):  
British Isles ◽  
Episcopal Church ◽  
Governing Body ◽  
Ordination Of Women ◽  
The Church

The autumn of 2013 saw two landmark decisions in the Anglican churches of the British Isles. On 12 September 2013 the Governing Body of the Church in Wales voted in favour of legislation to permit the ordination of women as bishops. On 20 September 2013 it was announced that on the previous day the Revd Patricia Storey had been elected as Bishop of Meath and Kildare. She was duly consecrated on 30 November 2013 and enthroned in her two cathedrals in early December. The Scottish Episcopal Church permits the ordination of women to the episcopate, but to date none has been elected to an episcopal see.

The Growth of the Layman's Power in the Episcopal Church

1912 ◽  
Vol 3 ◽  
pp. 63-77
Author(s):  
Daniel Dulany Addison
Keyword(s):  
Church Of England ◽  
Episcopal Church ◽  
Governing Body ◽  
Fundamental Law ◽  
The Law ◽  
The Church

The layman's power in the Episcopal Church is equal to that of the clergy and the bishops. Not only in the management of the parish, as a member or a vestryman, but in the legislation of the Diocese, in the Diocesan Convention, and in the legislation of the Church as a whole, in the General Convention, all action must be taken with his consent. There must be a concurrence between the clerical and lay vote. In the Diocesan Convention each parish is represented by the clergyman and the lay delegates; and in the General Convention, each diocese is represented by four clergymen and four laymen and the bishop. This procedure is such a radical departure from the law of the Church of England, which planted the Church in the Colonies that an inquiry into its development and growth may be of value in analyzing American conditions and tendencies. Dr. S. D. McConnell in his history says: “The provision in its fundamental law for the admission of the laity into the Church's governing body as an independent estate is an arrangement which had not been in operation for fifteen centuries. It was a return to a practice of the most primitive period, and had no contemporary illustration.”

Governing Body of the Church in Wales

2008 ◽  
Vol 11 (1) ◽  
pp. 94-97
Author(s):  
Philip Morris
Keyword(s):  
Pastoral Care ◽  
Governing Body ◽  
Care And Support ◽  
Ordination Of Women ◽  
The Church

In April, a Bill was considered to enable women to be consecrated as bishops. The most crucial amendment for consideration was that ‘the Bench of Bishops will provide pastoral care and support for those who in conscience cannot accept the ordination of women as priests and bishops through the ministry of an Assistant Bishop or Bishops’. The Archbishop resisted the amendment on the grounds that, if it were passed, the Church would be appointing a male bishop who had doubts about the validity of the orders of a woman bishop. Such a bishop and his followers would have real doubts as to whether the sacraments presided over by her were real sacraments, and real doubts about whether anyone ordained by her, male or female, was actually ordained.

The Baptismal Revolution in the American Episcopal Church: Baptismal Ecclesiology and the Baptismal Covenant

Ecclesiology ◽  
2010 ◽  
Vol 6 (1) ◽  
pp. 8-38 ◽  
Author(s):  
Colin Podmore
Keyword(s):  
Social Action ◽  
Church Of England ◽  
Current Crisis ◽  
Episcopal Church ◽  
Book Of Common Prayer ◽  
Ordained Ministry ◽  
Ordination Of Women ◽  
Common Prayer ◽  
The Church

AbstractThe Episcopal Church has come to espouse a developed form of baptismal ecclesiology, in which all laypersons are believed to be ministers by virtue of their baptism and the ordained ministry is understood as a particular form of the ministry of all the baptized. The adoption of the 1979 Book of Common Prayer was significant for this. Also included in that book was a 'Baptismal Covenant' that has come to be seen as an iconic statement of the Episcopal Church's commitment to social action and 'inclusion'. This article documents the genesis and content of this developed form of baptismal ecclesiology and of the Baptismal Covenant, highlights their relevance for the ordination of women to the priesthood, and points to their significance for the moral and ecclesiological aspects of the current crisis in the Anglican Communion. Comparison is made with the ecclesiology of the Church of England, as expressed in its liturgy and in relevant reports.

THE INCEPTION AND EVOLUTION OF FINANCIAL REPORTING IN THE PROTESTANT EPISCOPAL CHURCH IN THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

1986 ◽  
Vol 13 (2) ◽  
pp. 55-63 ◽  
Author(s):  
G. A. Swanson ◽  
John C. Gardner
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Financial Reporting ◽  
United States Of America ◽  
The United States ◽  
Episcopal Church ◽  
For Profit ◽  
Not For Profit ◽  
The Church

This research documents the emergence of accounting procedures and concepts in a centrally controlled not-for-profit organization during a period of change and consolidation. The evolution of accounting as prescribed by the General Canons is identified and its implementation throughout the church conferences is examined.

Governing Body of the Church in Wales

2021 ◽  
Vol 23 (2) ◽  
pp. 214-217
Author(s):  
Matthew Chinery
Keyword(s):  
Governing Body ◽  
The Church

The Governing Body had been due to meet in April 2020 in Llandudno but, like so much else, this meeting was cancelled due to the COVID-19 pandemic and the lockdown imposed by the Welsh Government.

scholarly journals The Governing Body of the Church in Wales

2000 ◽  
Vol 5 (26) ◽  
pp. 383-385
Author(s):  
Charles Anderson
Keyword(s):  
Governing Body ◽  
The Church

Bonds of Discord: Alternative Episcopal Oversight Examined in the Light of the Nonjurring Consecrations

1995 ◽  
Vol 3 (17) ◽  
pp. 398-409
Author(s):  
Roger Turner
Keyword(s):  
Church Of England ◽  
17Th Century ◽  
The Body ◽  
Women's Ordination ◽  
Ordination Of Women ◽  
The Church

In this paper I offer some warnings regarding the scheme for alternative episcopal oversight now embodied in the Act of Synod passed by the House of Bishops and published as Appendix B to Ordination of Women to the Priesthood: Pastoral Arrangements. These arrangements provide sacramental care as well as oversight for opponents of the ordination of women to the priesthood. Furthermore, the scheme is intended to serve two purposes: first, to safeguard the position of bishops and other clergy opposed to women's ordination; secondly, to ensure a continuity of such bishops and clergy. That the scheme is flawed becomes apparent when one examines it in the light of an arrangement devised at the end of the 17th century. The arrangement had been intended to secure the episcopal oversight of the body, both clerical and lay, which separated itself from the Church of England in 1690–91. The separation stemmed from its members feeling themselves unable to take the oaths of allegiance to William and Mary; hence the term ‘Nonjurors’.

scholarly journals The Governing Body of the Church in Wales

2005 ◽  
Vol 8 (36) ◽  
pp. 87-89
Author(s):  
Charles Anderson
Keyword(s):  
Governing Body ◽  
The Church

The 78th General Convention of the Episcopal Church and the Liturgy: New Wine in Old Wineskins?

2016 ◽  
Vol 98 (4) ◽  
pp. 681-701
Author(s):  
Bryan Cones
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Diversity ◽  
Center Of Gravity ◽  
Theological Reflection ◽  
Episcopal Church ◽  
Book Of Common Prayer ◽  
Liturgical Reform ◽  
Common Prayer ◽  
The Church

The 78th General Convention of the Episcopal Church generated a significant number of resolutions related to the church's liturgy, most of which passed both Houses, including resolutions authorizing preparation of the revision of the 1979 Book of Common Prayer and The Hymnal 1982. A review of the resolutions related to liturgy and music, however, raises fundamental questions about the kind of liturgical reform the church may undertake and how it may integrate growing appreciation for linguistic and cultural diversity in the church, including the insights of feminist, postcolonial, and LGBTQ theological reflection and those produced by theologians of color. This essay argues that serious engagement with these questions suggests a completely reimagined liturgical “center of gravity” that integrates the insights of liturgical scholarship and practice since the authorization of the 1979 Book of Common Prayer and The Hymnal 1982, while providing the flexibility to respond to the church's current diverse contexts.

Eucharistic Ecclesiology

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Daniel Handschy
Keyword(s):  
Church Of England ◽  
John Henry Newman ◽  
Episcopal Church ◽  
Oxford Movement ◽  
Constitutional Reforms ◽  
The Church

As the constitutional reforms of the 1820s and 1830s called into question the nature of the establishment of the Church of England, leaders of the Oxford Movement looked to the American Episcopal Church as an example of a Church not dependent on state establishment. Bishops Samuel Seabury and John Henry Hobart had constructed a constitution for the American Episcopal Church based on a ‘purely spiritual’ episcopacy and a doctrine of eucharistic sacrifice. Their example influenced Hugh James Rose, John Henry Newman, E. B. Pusey, and John Keble in the course of the Oxford Movement, and this in turn influenced the course of the Ritualist movement within the American Episcopal Church.

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