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Eames Commission Explores Implications Of Woman Diocesan Bishop

Episcopal News Service. March 29, 1990 [90086]

James Rosenthal, Anglican Consultative Council

The fourth meeting of the Archbishop of Canterbury's Commission on Communion and Women in the Episcopate spent most of its March 20-22 meeting in London discussing the implications of the recent election of a woman diocesan bishop in New Zealand.

The additional guidelines surrounding a woman as a diocesan will be released in the near future, after a review by the archbishop and the Primates of the Anglican Communion. English-born Penelope Jamieson will be consecrated bishop of Dunedin in June 1990.

Commission members reported on their individual work on behalf of the archbishop's commission. The Most Rev. Robin Eames, archbishop of Armagh and chairman of the commission, reported on his visit to a conference in the Province of Jerusalem and the Middle East in January, where he presented the commission's recommendations.

The Most Rev. Peter Carnley, archbishop of Perth, Australia, reported on his February visit to the Church of the Province of New Zealand that included a meeting with the House of Bishops and with the bishop-elect of Dunedin, the Rev. Penelope Jamieson. He also met with groups of women priests. (The Anglican Church in New Zealand has been ordaining women as priests for 12 years, and there are currently over 100 women serving as priests in New Zealand, nearly a third in stipendiary ministry positions.)

Dr. Mary Tanner of England and Bishop Mark Dyer of the Diocese of Bethlehem (Pennsylvania) reported on their presentations to the House of Bishops meeting in Philadelphia in September 1989. At that meeting the bishops unanimously agreed to accept the Eames Commission's guidelines.

Archbishop Eames advised that an invitation had been extended to a member of the commission to visit the Provincial Synod of the Church in the Province of the Indian Ocean, meeting in Madagascar this fall.

Archbishop of Canterbury Robert Runcie greeted the Commission on Wednesday and thanked members for their work, and expressed the hope that the commission would continue to consider cases in which there was a need for more consultation or advice when specific points were raised by member churches of the Anglican Communion.

Attending the London meeting were:

• The Most Rev. Robin Eames, Primate of All Ireland
• The Most Rev. Peter Carnley, Archbishop of Perth, Australia
• The Most Rev. Abiodun Adetiloye, Archbishop of Nigeria
• The Rt. Rev. David Hope, Bishop of Wakefield, England
• The Rt. Rev. Mark Dyer, Bishop of Bethlehem, United States
• The Rev. Julia Gatta, United States
• Dr. Mary Tanner, England