Women Bishops

Part of Oral Answers to Questions — Church Commissioners – in the House of Commons at 9:30 am on 21 November 2013.

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Photo of John Cryer John Cryer Labour, Leyton and Wanstead 9:30, 21 November 2013

The congregation of the Church of England has been in headlong decline for a long time, and that is continuing. How likely is it that that trend would be reversed were the Church of England by some chance to pursue its existing policy of barring women from being bishops, which most people think is redolent of a past era?