Britain's first woman bishop to take office this weekend

http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/martinbeckford/blog/2009/01/14/britains_first_woman_bishop_to_take_office_this_weekend

[Telegraph] 14 Jan 2009--History will be made this weekend as the first female bishop to serve in a British church takes office.

However the Church of England continues to argue about how and when women should be introduced to the episcopate, while the Roman Catholic Church maintains that only men can serve as priests.

So it has been left to the Lutheran Church in Great Britain, which has just a few thousand worshippers, to become the first to take the radical step.