How Ladies can be a Bishop?

[Yeshwa Younis]

I have read many articles and different opinion about the issue of ladies bishop. I would like to know how women can be a bishop?
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[Yarddog]

I have read many articles and different opinion about the issue of ladies bishop. I would like to know how women can be a bishop?
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They would have to belong to a Church which ordains women. The Anglican Church may have their first female Bishop soon.
Anglicans ordain Africa’s first woman bishop | The Raw Story

 

[Albion]

They would have to belong to a Church which ordains women. The Anglican Church may have their first female Bishop soon.

The Church of England, that is. The Episcopal Church currently has a woman as its presiding bishop.

 

[Archivist]

Several years ago our ELCA Synod had a female Bishop.

 

[Albion]

I have read many articles and different opinion about the issue of ladies bishop. I would like to know how women can be a bishop?​

The simple answer is that those denominations are governed by delegates to conventions who are at liberty to alter the church's policies by a vote. In such churches as the Catholic and Eastern Orthodox, that can't be done; and they continue to bar women from ordination.

 

[Yarddog]

The Church of England, that is. The Episcopal Church currently has a woman as its presiding bishop.

Thanks, the Anglican Church in Swaziland has just appointed a female Bishop.
Swaziland Gets First Female Anglican Bishop - ABC News

 

[Albion]

Thanks, the Anglican Church in Swaziland has just appointed a female Bishop.
Swaziland Gets First Female Anglican Bishop - ABC News

There are a number of them in churches around the world. The Church of England is, of course, an especially sensitive and influential church because it is the mother church of Anglicanism. I only singled out the American church for a mention in my earlier post because its presiding bishop is a woman.

 

[Yarddog]

There are a number of them in churches around the world. The Church of England is, of course, an especially sensitive and influential church because it is the mother church of Anglicanism. I only singled out the American church for a mention in my earlier post because its presiding bishop is a woman.

Ohhh. Good point. Applies to the OP fairly well.

 

[wordsoflife]

I would like to know how women can be a bishop?

This is possible only in liberal denominations which allow women clergy.

 

[ViaCrucis]

I'm fine with the ordination of women. I don't think there's anything inherently more pastoral about persons with a Y chromosome than those without.

-CryptoLutheran

 

[AHJE]

In the same way that we may not use grape juice to baptize people a woman may not receive Holy Orders. The form or matter of the Sacrament is invalid.

Christ was a man, not a woman.


There are more reasons.

Praised be Jesus Christ.

 

[Ringo84]

The same way that men can be Bishops.

What specific qualities of womanhood make women unqualified for the position of Bishop, pastor, etc?

Christ was a man, not a woman.

Christ was also a Jew. Shall we say that only Jews can be Bishops?
Ringo

 

[Albion]

I'm fine with the ordination of women. I don't think there's anything inherently more pastoral about persons with a Y chromosome than those without.

-CryptoLutheran

That -- and Ringo's version of it -- only works if you consider the qualifications for the priesthood to be how well the person "can do the job." Except that it's not "a job."

That argument is very similar to the one used by people who describe the sacrament of Baptism as nothing more than "getting wet."

 

[Cjwinnit]

I'm fine with the ordination of women. I don't think there's anything inherently more pastoral about persons with a Y chromosome than those without.

-CryptoLutheran

It is possible for the non-ordained to be more pastoral than the clergy

 

[Ringo84]

That -- and Ringo's version of it -- only works if you consider the qualifications for the priesthood to be how well the person "can do the job." Except that it's not "a job."

That argument is very similar to the one used by people who describe the sacrament of Baptism as nothing more than "getting wet."

Right....it's not just a "job", but I'm not seeing how that would affect women's ability to do the job.

In other words: OK...it's not "just a job". So what?
Ringo

 

[Albion]

Right....it's not just a "job", but I'm not seeing how that would affect women's ability to do the job.

If it were only a job, it probably wouldn't.

 

[Lovely Lane]

I have read many articles and different opinion about the issue of ladies bishop. I would like to know how women can be a bishop?
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By the Grace of our God is your answer.

Current U.S. bishops include: 11 African-American male bishops, 1 African-American female bishops, 1 Hispanic-American female bishop, 5 Asian-American male bishops, 21 Caucasian male bishops, 12 Caucasian female bishops; 14 female bishops total.

History & Polity - UMC.org

 

[grasping the after wind]

I don't know if I am correct in this assumption but I understood the OP to be asking for some sort of theological reason why women can be bishops that would probably include the reason for ignoring Paul's instructions to the contrary. As a member of a congregation that belongs to a synod with a female bishop, I obviously do not have a problem with female clergy, however, I do not think that my saying that I have no such problem is what the OP is seeking, nor do I think that stating that there ought not be such a thing as a female bishop answers the question as asked. Would somebody more theologically adept than myself like to make the case for female bishops that would include the reasoning behind not following Paul's instructions? Again I am not sure that the OP was thinking in that direction but I only suspect that and I also would be curious as to the answer.

 

[Cjwinnit]

Would somebody more theologically adept than myself like to make the case for female bishops that would include the reasoning behind not following Paul's instructions?

We can't ignore the New Testament.

 

[grasping the after wind]

We can't ignore the New Testament.

I recognize that and I would never advocate doing so, however, there are many people, much more learned in theology than myself, that hold opposite opinions about the possibility of female clergy. I believe I fully understand the argument against and would like to be given a little more information and insight into the argument for with especial attention given to Paul's instructions .