Bishop Broadhurst, the leader of the traditionalist and mainly Anglo-Catholic organisation Forward in Faith, had already announced in October that he would convert to Rome.
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Twenty years after the introduction of women priests, the issue has continued to divide traditionalists - among those on the Church's evangelical and Anglo-Catholic wings - from reformers.
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From an Anglo-Catholic point of view, he believes, "it's absolutely essential that women should be admitted to the episcopate" and illogical to have female priests without women bishops.