Episcopal Press and News

Church of England's High Rate of Women's Ordination

Episcopal News Service. June 15, 1994 [94116K]

The Southwark Cathedral in England was recently the site of the largest number of women's ordinations in a single place in one day: 78. Bishop Roy Williamson of Southwark led three two-hour services to accomplish the job. "I think it was the joy of the occasion that kept him going," said a diocesan spokesman. The Church of England now has 1,173 ordained women priests, almost as many as the Episcopal Church in the USA.