Proposals to allow women in the Church in Wales to be ordained as bishops have been rejected by the Church’s Governing Body on Wednesday. The controversial Bill was defeated by just three votes at a meeting of the 140-member body in Lampeter. Prior to the vote, the Archbishop of Wales, Dr Barry Morgan, had urged the body to accept the Bill, saying he did not see how the Church could “logically exclude women from the episcopate” after the 1996 decision to allow women priests. He expressed his disappointment after the vote. “I feel we won the argument but we narrowly lost the vote,” he said.

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