WOMEN AS CLERGY
CHURCH OF ENGLAND IMSFI OP GIV E S SIT I >1’() R T LONDON, Sept. 10. “I never believed thilt women were handicapped by sox for the highest church offices,’’ said Dr. K. W. Barnes, the Bistiop of Birmingham, addressing a meeting at Gel ley Oak, a suburb of 'Birmingham, in support of the admission of women to the church, m’mistfv.
He added: “I have known women who would make excellent bishops. Wise, firm and kindly women might be ordained to the priesthood equally with men.”
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXIII, Issue 19122, 17 September 1936, Page 5
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