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THE Church of England has been given a second chance to bring in women bishops at a key meeting which started yesterday.
The news comes as the church put paid to another public relations disaster by severing its ties with payday lender Wonga.
Members of the General Synod have been asked to give final approval to legislation introducing women bishops, paving the way for the first female diocesan bishop in the Church of England by early next year.
Archbishop of Canterbury Justin Welby is preparing to drive through the plan should the General Synod choose to reject it for a second time.
The meeting came on the same day as secretary to the Church Commissioners for England Andrew Brown announced that the church had pulled its Wonga investments.
“Frankly, we were embarrassed 12 months ago, and so we’ve been working over that period to extract that business from the pooled fund,” he said.
