The Right Revd Nigel McCulloch, Bishop of Manchester

The Report of the Legislative Drafting Group, which has been meeting under the chairmanship of the Bishop of Manchester, and which was charged by the General Synod in July 2006 with:

'(i) preparing the draft measure and amending canon necessary to remove the legal obstacles to the consecration of women to the office of bishop;

(ii) preparing a draft of possible additional legal provision consistent with Canon A4 to establish arrangements that would seek to maintain the highest possible degree of communion with those conscientiously unable to receive the ministry of women bishops;'

~ has today been published.  It is available for download here.

Comment will follow.