Congratulations Rev. Libby Lane!

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Reverend Libby Lane has been announced as the first female bishop for the Church of England, just a month after a historic change to canon law.

She will become the new Bishop of Stockport, a post that has been vacant since May.

Mrs Lane has been the vicar at St Peter's Hale and St Elizabeth's Ashley, in the diocese of Chester, since 2007.

The general synod voted to back plans for female bishops in July and formally adopted legislation on 17 November.

The appointment will end centuries of male leadership of the Church and comes 20 years after women became priests.

Mrs Lane was ordained a deacon in 1993 and a priest in 1994, serving her curacy in Blackburn, Lancashire. Since 2010 she has also held the role of Dean of Women in Ministry for the diocese of Chester.

Speaking at Stockport town hall the new bishop, whose role was approved by the Queen, said it was a "remarkable day for me and an historic day for the Church".

"This is unexpected and very exciting," she said.

"I'm honoured and thankful to be called to serve as the next Bishop of Stockport and not a little daunted to be entrusted with such a ministry."

Prime Minister David Cameron congratulated Mrs Lane and said: "This is an historic appointment and an important step forward for the Church towards greater equality in its senior positions".

Mrs Lane will be consecrated as the eighth bishop of the town at a ceremony at York Minster on 26 January.

The first women priests were ordained in 1994, but to date women have not been able to take on the Church's most senior roles.
Legislation to fast track women bishops into the House Of Lords will be introduced to Parliament on Thursday.

But Mrs Lane will not be able to enter the House of Lords, as the post she is taking up is a junior or suffragan appointment within the Diocese of Chester, the BBC's religious correspondent Caroline Wyatt said.

The first women bishop eligible to take up a seat in the Lords is expected to be announced in the new year.

Mrs Lane, who was schooled in Manchester and then the University at Oxford, before training for ministry at Cranmer Hall in Durham, dismissed suggestions her appointment was just a symbolic gesture by a Church still predominantly run by men.

The bishop and her husband, who is also a priest, were one of the first married couples in the Church of England to be ordained together.

Mrs Lane's interests include being a school governor, supporting Manchester United and learning to play the saxophone, according to her church's website.

40ths Anniversary of Women's Ordination Coverage

Here you will see photos and video from the symposium and the celebration mass:

http://www.diopa.org/40th-anniversary

2 chicks in pointy hats were in attendence: Bishop Barbara Harris (first woman bishop in the Episcopal Church) and Presiding Bishop Katharine Jefferts Schori (first woman Presiding Bishop)
I had the pleasure of attending the mass and it was  amazing !

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Congratulations!

Women Bishops Approved By Church Of England

CONGRATULATIONS!!

Celebrating of Women's Ministry in the Episcopal Church July 26. Presiding Bishop to Attend

Celebrate the Ministry of All Women

on the occasion of

The 40th Anniversary of Women’s Priestly Ordination

 

PHILADELPHIA, PA  – On Saturday, July 26th, the Diocese of Pennsylvania in conjunction with others throughout the church is hosting a joyful celebration of the 40th anniversary of women’s ordination to the priesthood in the Episcopal Church. The ministry of all women: past, present and future, is the focus for the full day of programming to include a morning symposium at Temple University, an afternoon Holy Eucharist at Church of the Advocate where the 1974 ordinations took place, and a reception and ministry exposé in the Paul and Christine Washington Center gymnasium on the campus of The Advocate. Women and men of all church orders and dioceses are invited to sign-up for space to display and discuss particular ministries where women are vitally engaged especially in leadership roles. This should be an exciting day-end gathering that celebrates not only the courage of the men and women who engaged the Spirit-led irregular ordinations of 40 and 41 years ago, but also demonstrates the enormous array gifts that propels God’s love and grace into the world.

At the symposium (8:30 a.m. to 2 pm), Dr. Fredrica Thompsett, Mary Wolfe Professor Emerita of Historical Theology at Episcopal Divinity School, will serve as keynote speaker. A panel discussion and luncheon will follow. Panelists include the Rt. Rev. Dr. Carol Gallagher, the Rev. Miguelina Howell, the Rev. Pamela Nesbit, Archdeacon, and Nokomis Wood. The panel will be moderated by the Very Rev. Katherine H. Ragsdale, Dean and President of the Episcopal Divinity School. The Rev. Dr. Nancy Wittig, one of the original Philadelphia eleven ordinands, will close the symposium with a meditation. At 3 pm, our Presiding Bishop, the Most Reverend Katharine Jefferts Schori, will preside and preach at the Holy Eucharist at Church of the Advocate just blocks from the symposium site.