During the debate,
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Jane Pattison, from the Diocese of Sheffield, voiced opposition to the measure, according to the Episcopal News Service.
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She told the assembly that it would “promote the loss of conservative evangelical and traditional catholic ministry in the Church
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of England. I suggest that the church cannot afford this loss. … England cannot afford this loss if we are serious
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about sharing the Gospel with the nation.”In the Church of England women have been able to serve as
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priests since the early 1990s. The draft legislation would have continued that service by "enabling
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a woman to be consecrated to the office of the
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bishop if she otherwise satisfies the requirements of Canon Law as to the persons who may
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be consecrated as bishops."Had the measure passed, canon law for the church
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would also have been amended to allow for female bishops and the General Synod would have then had to send that on formally
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to the Queen of England as a "Petition to the Crown" for her to grant "Royal Assent and License" to make the change to the
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