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Woman a candidate for bishop
by Muriel Porter, Australia correspondent
A WOMAN priest is one of five candidates for election as Bishop of the Australian diocese of Canberra and Goulburn. The Ven. Dr Sarah Macneil, who is both an archdeacon and Rector of All Saints’, Ainslie, in Canberra, has been named as a candidate in an article in the Canberra Times. Archdeacon Macneil is the first woman to be nominated formally for election as a diocesan bishop in Australia. Two women were consecrated as assistant bishops in May this year (News, 30 May). The other four candidates are assistant bishops in Canberra and Goulburn, an assistant bishop in Brisbane, and a Sydney rector. If Archdeacon Macneil is elected at the synod meeting, which begins on 31 October, her election would need to be ratified by all the bishops of the province of New South Wales. The ratification is restricted to ensuring the nominee meets the requirements of canonical fitness, which are limited to age, baptism, and priests’ orders only. Last year, the Church’s Appellate Tribunal decided that the canonical fitness requirements did not exclude women. The Rt Revd George Browning has retired as the Bishop of Canberra and Goulburn. Since May, he has been Priest-in-Charge of the Wriggle Valley in Salisbury diocese. |
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