Female bishops
The Reverend Libby Lane was ordained as Bishop of Stockport, the Church of England’s first female bishop.
— By the time the first 32 female C of E vicars were ordained in 1994, the Episcopal Diocese of Massachusetts had had a female bishop, Barbara Harris, for five years.
— Yet the first Anglican woman priest was ordained half a century earlier.
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