[Church Times by Gavin Drake] The Bench of Bishops of the Church in Wales will "not please everybody" with a code of practice containing provisions for those who dissent from women bishops, the Archbishop of Wales, Dr Barry Morgan, has said.

Dr Morgan was speaking after the Governing Body of the Church overwhelmingly approved a Bill to enable the consecration of women to the episcopate. At the same time, it rejected the Bill's original plan for statutory safeguards.

This two-stage approach had been endorsed by the Governing Body last September (News, 21 September 2012), but last week it accepted an amendment tabled by the Archdeacon of Llandaff, the Ven. Peggy Jackson, that replaced those clauses with new ones instructing the Bench of Bishops to agree a code of practice "without delay".

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