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Reverend Libby Lane: “I’m conscious that other women will be looking to me”<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

Reverend Libby Lane has been announced as the first female bishop for the Church of England, just a month after a historic change to canon law.<\/p>\n

She will become the new Bishop of Stockport, a post that has been vacant since May.<\/p>\n

Mrs Lane has been the vicar at St Peter’s Hale and St Elizabeth’s Ashley, in the diocese of Chester, since 2007.<\/p>\n

The general synod voted to back plans for female bishops in July and formally adopted legislation on 17 November.<\/p>\n

The appointment will end centuries of male leadership of the Church and comes 20 years after women became priests.<\/p>\n

Mrs Lane was ordained a deacon in 1993 and a priest in 1994, serving her curacy in Blackburn, Lancashire. Since 2010 she has also held the role of Dean of Women in Ministry for the diocese of Chester.<\/p>\n

Speaking at Stockport town hall the new bishop, whose role was approved by the Queen, said it was a “remarkable day for me and an historic day for the Church”.<\/p>\n

“This is unexpected and very exciting,” she said.<\/p>\n

“I’m honoured and thankful to be called to serve as the next Bishop of Stockport and not a little daunted to be entrusted with such a ministry.”<\/p>\n

Prime Minister David Cameron congratulated Mrs Lane and said: “This is an historic appointment and an important step forward for the Church towards greater equality in its senior positions”.<\/p>\n

Mrs Lane will be consecrated as the eighth bishop of the town at a ceremony at York Minster on 26 January.<\/p>\n

The first women priests were ordained in 1994, but to date women have not been able to take on the Church’s most senior roles.<\/p>\n

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\u00a0Archbishop Justin Welby is “absolutely delighted” with the Church of England’s first female bishop<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

Legislation to fast track women bishops into the House Of Lords will be introduced to Parliament on Thursday.<\/p>\n

But Mrs Lane will not be able to enter the House of Lords, as the post she is taking up is a junior or suffragan appointment within the Diocese of Chester, the BBC’s religious correspondent Caroline Wyatt said.<\/p>\n

The first women bishop eligible to take up a seat in the Lords is expected to be announced in the new year.<\/p>\n

Mrs Lane, who was schooled in Manchester and then the University at Oxford, before training for ministry at Cranmer Hall in Durham, dismissed suggestions her appointment was just a symbolic gesture by a Church still predominantly run by men.<\/p>\n

The bishop and her husband, who is also a priest, were one of the first married couples in the Church of England to be ordained together.<\/p>\n

Mrs Lane’s interests include being a school governor, supporting Manchester United and learning to play the saxophone, according to her<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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