Early Day Motion·EDM 526
WOMEN BISHOPS
19 November 201421 Signatures
Primary sponsor
Valerie Vaz
Labour — Walsall and Bloxwich
Motion Text
That this House welcomes the adoption by the Church of England of legislation which will allow women to be ordained as bishops in 2015; praises the work and words of the Archbishop of Canterbury who said that men and women are equally icons, witnesses and vessels of Christ for the world; notes that the first women priests were ordained in 1994; and is looking forward to welcoming the first women bishops.