2020s to be decade of women bishops
by Nicholas Hellen, Sunday Times:
The Church of England is turning to “unconscious bias training” in an effort to appoint more female bishops over the next decade.
The Bishop of London, Sarah Mullally, 57, said she hopes the training — intended to stop men hiring employees in their own image — means women will make up 50% of bishops by 2030.
Coaching in the London diocese follows the introduction of similar training in other headquarters including Church House, the centre C of E bureaucracy.
Of the 115 bishops in the church, 25 are women. By contrast, Pope Francis has reaffirmed that the “door is closed” for women to become priests in the Roman Catholic Church.
Mullally, previously chief nursing officer for England, added: “I certainly think that having women as priests enables different types of conversations that probably wouldn’t happen if you’re a man. My background as a nurse means people often talk to me in a different way.
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