FIRST WOMAN ARCHBISHOP

Early day motion 2392, tabled 19 June 2006 by Chris Bryant (Labour). Signed by 44 members.

That this House congratulates the bishops of the US Episcopal Church on electing Katharine Jefferts Schori as the next leader of the Episcopal Church in the USA (ECUSA); notes that ECUSA is the first church in the Anglican Communion to elect a woman archbishop; and looks forward to the day when the Church of England consecrates women bishops and archbishops.

Signatures by party: Labour 27, Liberal Democrat 11, Conservative 4, Plaid Cymru 2.