After almost five hours of debate, the General Synod, the governing body of the Church of England, approved on Monday the proposal to allow women to take up senior roles in the Church.
Ahead of the vote, Justin Welby, spiritual leader of the world’s 80 million Anglicans, said the general public would find it “almost incomprehensible” should the General Synod fail to support the move.
Al Jazeera’s Emma Hayward, reporting from York, described the scene outside the meeting, as “jubilant” following the vote.
Jody Stowell, a woman priest from North London, said supporters had low expectations that the proposal would be approved.
“I think we went through the stages of shock, through amazement to joy, which you are seeing here now,” Stowell told Al Jazeera. “When it happened it was just amazing.”
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