Saturday, April 28, 2012

FINAL CHURCH OF ENGLAND DIOCESES VOTE ON ANGLICAN COVENANT

Today sees the last two dioceses to vote on the Covenant. As the proposal has already been defeated the issue cannot return to General Synod until the summer of 2015 at the earliest.

Newcastle Against
Bishops  For: 2,  Against: 0,  Abstained: 0
Clergy     For:  8,  Against:  18,  Abstained: -
Laity        For: 14,  Against: 15,  Abstained: 0
York  For 

Bishops  For: 4,  Against: 0,  Abstained: 0
Clergy     For: 26,  Against: 5,  Abstained: 0
Laity        For: 38,  Against: 5,  Abstained: 1


Summary


Dioceses for the Covenant to date: 16
Dioceses against the Covenant to date: 26

Thanks to Paul Bagshaw at Not the Same Stream.
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  1. LapinbizarreApril 28, 2012 at 5:59 PM

    Often forgotten, and should not be, that Sentamu was one of only four diocesan bishops (the only one of those four still a diocesan) who explicitly refused to sign the 1999 Cambridge Accord on the rights of homosexual people.

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