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Article: Australia's Anglican Church rejects ordaining women bishops
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- October 5, 2004
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AP Worldstream
10-05-2004
Dateline: PERTH, Australia
Australia's Anglican Church rejected a move to ordain women as bishops, after a lengthy debate at its governing council on Tuesday.
Most of the delegates at the meeting of the church's General Synod in the Western Australian capital city of Perth supported having female bishops. But the final vote on a proposal to ordain women as bishops failed to garner the two-thirds majority required.
Sydney's Archbishop Peter Jensen, one of the country's most vocal opponents of female ordination, applauded the outcome.
"The constitution of the church prevailed, in that it protected the minority, and a pretty substantive minority did not want this," ...