From VirtueOnline...
Ghana Broadcasting Corporation
June 22, 2009
The Archbishop of the Province of West Africa and Accra Diocese of the Anglican Church Most Rev. Dr. Justice Offei Akrofi has declared that the Diocese of Accra has finally agreed to the ordination of women as Priests of the Church. He said the issue which has been on board for almost 10 years is a breakthrough for the Accra Diocese. He made this known at the closing ceremony of the 20th Synod of the Anglican Diocese of Accra.
Most Rev. Dr. Akrofi said since the Diocese has accepted to train women as Priests, they will work on the modalities to ordain them as active members of the priesthood.
Blogger's note: This news is particularly distressing to faithful Anglo-Catholics who remember from the history of the Shrine of Our Lady of Walsingham the venerable figure of the sometime Bishop of Accra, the Right Reverend Mowbray Stephen O'Rorke, who celebrated the Mass of the translation of the Holy Image to the Holy House and Shrine of Our Lady on 15 October 1931. In Bishop O'Rorke's time and beyond, the Diocese of Accra was a bastion of orthodox Anglo-Catholic teaching and practice. Another great loss for Anglicanism.
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