Bishop of Dover stamps on eggshells at WATCH conference

Thursday 25th April 2024

ACCEPTING the settlements that enabled the ordination of women to the priesthood and episcopate was an “error of judgment”, the Bishop of Dover, the Rt Revd Rose Hudson-Wilkin, said on Saturday.

Addressing the Not Equal Yet Conference organised by Women and the Church (WATCH) at St John’s, Waterloo, the Bishop, who, as the Bishop in Canterbury, is responsible for the day-to-day running and leadership of the diocese, was critical of the provision of episcopal ministry and the working of the Five Guiding Principles that accompanied the women-bishops legislation (News, 16 July 2021).

“I may be the only one here, but I am not afraid to say that I believe it was an error of judgement that led us to accept the blinkered and restrained conditions of women being priested,” she said. “I really genuinely believe that.”

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