More on GAFCON’s first woman bishop
From Wikipedia (updated 4 February 2018): Elizabeth Awut Ngor is a Sudanese Anglican bishop. She serves as an assistant bishop in the Diocese of Rumbek of the Episcopal Church of South Sudan, having been consecrated a bishop on 31 December 2016 by Daniel Deng Bul, Archbishop of Juba. Her consecration had not be publicly announced until the retirement of Deng in January 2018. Her consecration was, however, not secret, and she has attended the South Sudan House of Bishops and been listed in the prayer requests of her diocese’s sister diocese (the Diocese of Salisbury in the Church of England). She is the first woman to become a bishop in a province of the Anglican Communion that aligns itself with GAFCON, a conservative Anglican movement that opposes homosexuality and the leadership/ordination of women.
Kevin Kallsen and Bishop Gavin Asheden discuss this in more detail in the latest Anglican Unscripted video. (Starts at around 8.01)
In this video, Canon George Conger explains how he discovered the existence of Bishop Elizabeth almost by chance, and discusses the possible reasons why this consecration occurred. (Starts at around 1.38)
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