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Wangaratta: priesthood for women
by Muriel PorterAustralia Correspondent
AFTER 15 years of controversy, the Synod of the rural diocese of Wangaratta in Victoria, has passed the Australian General Synod’s legislation permitting women priests. The Bishop of Wangaratta, the Rt Revd David Farrer, has said he will approve the adopting legislation after provision is made for those opposed to women clergy at a deferred Synod meeting in August this year. A committee will now draft the provisions. Wangaratta Synod passed the 1992 legislation with overwhelming support from the laity (43 in favour to nine opposed), and a majority in the House of Clergy (15 in favour, nine opposed, and three abstentions). The diocese, which has come close to passing the General Synod canon on several occasions, already has three women priests, who were all ordained outside the diocese. The Revd Libby Gilchrist, a hospital chaplaincy co-ordinator and associate parish priest, has been in formal ministry in the diocese as a laywoman and deacon since 1993, and as a priest since 2005. She has commented that she hoped she had been able to demonstrate that “women priests could offer a valid and sensitive sacramental ministry”. After the Wangaratta decision, there are now four Australian dioceses which have not approved the women priests legislation. |
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