From today’s Hansard:
Royal assent
Mr Speaker:I have to notify the House, in accordance with the Royal Assent Act 1967, that Her Majesty has signified her Royal Assent to the following Measure:
Bishops and Priests (Consecration and Ordination of Women) Measure 2014.
Royal Assent
11.18 amThe following Measure was given Royal Assent:
Bishops and Priests (Consecration and Ordination of Women) Measure.
Just the promulgation to go, then?
Hasn’t the Queen also got to sign something to do with the Canon?
Measure needs to be promulged and Amending Canon 33 passed on 17 November. About time!
Her Gracious Majesty may possibly now be comfortable with the possibility of gender equivalents in the leadership and guidance of the Church – of which she remains its titular Governor. God save the Queen!
How appropriate that the second Queen Elizabeth completes what the first of that name constituted in 1559.
You are right Susan. The Queen has to issue a royal licence for the canon before it can be promulged. But this is expected – see my earlier article here:
http://www.thinkinganglicans.org.uk/archives/006759.html
So, when do the job interviews begin in dioceses that have a vacancy for Bishops?
“So, when do the job interviews begin in dioceses that have a vacancy for Bishops?” Posted by: Nigel Baldwin on Friday, 24 October 2014 at 3:27pm BST In respect of vacant *diocesan* sees, it could be as soon as 2nd and 3rd December when the Crown Nominations Commission meets to determine its preferred candidate for the vacant see of Southwell and Nottingham. Thereafter, 19/20 February for Gloucester. Appointments to suffragan sees are at the discretion of the relevant diocesan bishop so dates are unknown. However Church Times reports today (page 6) that “a spokesman for the diocese of St. Edmundsbury… Read more »
RPNewmark links to my list of vacant diocesan sees. I also have this list of vacant suffragan sees:
http://peterowen.org.uk/articles/vacantsuffragansees.html
“How appropriate that the second Queen Elizabeth completes what the first of that name constituted in 1559.”
Yes! Ordaining women bishops, after, is comfortably within the Anglican tradition.
Scripture, tradition — AND REASON!
And by the way, the Roman Church will ordain women someday too.
“How appropriate that the second Queen Elizabeth completes what the first of that name constituted in 1559.”
It is also appropriate that the measure will be promulgated on the anniversary of the accession of Elizabeth I to the throne on the 17th November 1558.