Archbishop of Wales sounds a resounding blast for women in the church
Wales’ Archbishop, the Most Reverend Dr Barry Morgan, turned 16th century Presbyterian leader, John Knox’s diatribe* against the ‘monstrous regiment of women’ well and truly on its head in St David’s Cathedral. The occasion was the Commissioning Service of the Mothers' Union Province of Wales and St David’s Diocese officers. In his eloquent address, the Archbishop pulled no punches in his effort to bring home to women the importance of their role in the Church. He began with a graphic description of the diversity of family life in today’s Wales and went on to describe the role of women in the Church as most often supportive and frequently subservient. Using current statistics across Wales and in each Diocese, he made an impassioned plea for women to take their place in the governance of the Church in Wales. He described sayings that ‘women are over-represented and under-authorised’ as having some foundation but refuted absolutely the dogma that ‘subordination [of women] is i...