Ecclesiastical Law Journal: Volume 3 -

Consensus and the Constitution: The Rejection of the Bill to Enable Women to be Ordained as Priests by the Governing Body of the Church in Wales
Thomas Glyn Watkin
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31 July 2008, pp. 232-239
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Church in Wales voted by secret ballot – the first such ballot in the seventy-four year history of that Body – on the motion that the Bill to Enable Women to be Ordained as Priests be passed. The result of the vote was as follows:

The Nordic and Baltic Churches
Christopher Hill
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31 July 2008, pp. 420-423
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In October 1992 representatives of the British and Irish Anglican Churches, together with their counterparts from the Nordic and Baltic Lutheran Churches signed an historic agreement near Porvoo in Finland which, if accepted by all these churches, will bring about their closer communion. The Porvoo Common Statement and a supporting dossier of Essays on Church and Ministry in Northern Europe were published in 1993 (Together in Mission and Ministry, Church House Publishing, London). The Porvoo Common Statement is now being considered by the General Synod which will be asked to accept a core Joint Declaration. This begins by a mutual acknowledgement of each other's churches as part of the One, Holy, Catholic and Apostolic Church. A second acknowledgement follows concerning the mutual presence of the Word of God and the Sacraments of baptism and the eucharist;then acknowledgements of the common confession of the apostolic faith and the ministry as both an instrument of grace and as having Christ's commission.

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