Early Day Motion·EDM 2392
FIRST WOMAN ARCHBISHOP
19 June 200644 Signatures
Primary sponsor
Chris Bryant
Labour — Rhondda and Ogmore
Motion Text
That this House congratulates the bishops of the US Episcopal Church on electing Katharine Jefferts Schori as the next leader of the Episcopal Church in the USA (ECUSA); notes that ECUSA is the first church in the Anglican Communion to elect a woman archbishop; and looks forward to the day when the Church of England consecrates women bishops and archbishops.