Will the Church of England allow Women Bishops? (Synod vote July 14, 2014) -- Religious News Service posting

www.rns.com/ (Religious News press service article by Trevor Grundy): Canterbury, England-- Women's rights activists greeted with delight signs the Church of England is poised to relent and allow women to be consecrated as bishops. Archbishop of Canterbury Justin Welby will preside over a historic General Synod meeting at the University of York when a make-or-break vote on the subject is expected Monday (July 14, 2014). "I think we're there at long last," American-born Christina Rees, one of the church's leading women's rights campaigners, said in an interview Thursday (July 10, 2014). Supporters of female bishops are convinced the General Synod -- the Church of England's governing body -- will approve amended legislation that will allow for the appointment of women as bishops by November and the first consecrations sometime in 2015. Reports published in England say Welby is determined to drive through legislation to allow female bishops and is even prepared to dissolve the present General Synod so that a freshly elected Synod could vote on the measure before the end of 2014. Senior sources say that revised legislation has convinced those who voted against women as bishops in 2013 to change their minds. Passage of legislation allowing women bishops will end a 20-year dispute. Women were first allowed to be ordained as priests in 1994. http://ncronline.org/news/global/church-england-set-vote-women-bishops