Even though the resolution now goes back to the dioceses for consideration over the next 18 months, no one seriously believes it will be reversed. If the resolution is supported by a majority of the diocesan synods, it will be returned to the General Synod for ratification in 2012. The first women bishops could be ordained as early as 2014.

Noble work indeed. They have been funded all that time by the LA Archdiocese with the full support of bishops and archbishops of that diocese until 2007.

It was not long, however, before an innovation permitted in TEC began to be expected, and faithful clergy, would-be clergy, and laity in TEC who had earlier shown tolerance ceased to be afforded the same by the liberal/revisionist forces now at the controls in TEC. A few years back, the national church even dispatched a squad of would-be enforcers out to what were, by then, just a handful of dioceses still resisting women's ordination.

Castigated by liberals who accused him of betraying his old friend by not securing his promotion, the Archbishop arrived at the General Synod in York facing a mutiny over his plans to avert an exodus of traditionalists opposed to women's ordination, according to the "Daily Telegraph". On the eve of one of the most pivotal debates in the Church's recent history, liberal bishops met to discuss how they would derail proposals put forward by Dr. Williams and Dr. Sentamu.