Church in Wales Considers Women Priests
Episcopal News Service. October 29, 1992 [92220K]
As several churches in the Anglican Communion address the issue of women priests, the Church in Wales, which once decided it was "inexpedient" to take stand on its own, has decided to reconsider the issue. Members of the Governing Body listened to a first reading of a bill to enable women to serve as priests, but they will not debate the issue until the second reading in April of next year. The Governing Body ruled in 1975 that there were no fundamental objections to women priests, but that it was not time to act. Even if the bill were passed immediately, there still would be no date set for the first woman priest to preach in Wales. The last clause of the bill states that its provisions would begin "on such a day as the bishops shall appoint."