Tanzania ‘will not consecrate women bishops’

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[Religious Intelligence] 14 Jul 2008--Tanzania will not consecrate women priests as bishops, Archbishop Valentino Mokiwa said last week, upon his return home to Dar es Salaam from the Gafcon conference in Jerusalem.

Speaking to The Citizen, Archbishop Mokiwa said his church did not accept the theological or sociological arguments put forward by supporters of women bishops, and was opposed to the innovation.

Evangelized by the Universities Mission to Central Africa, the churchmanship of the Province of Tanzania is predominantly Anglo-Catholic, but with evangelically inclined dioceses in Central and Western Tanganyika. However, both wings of the church oppose the introduction of women bishops, and Archbishop Mokiwa said he would not support such moves.