THE WOMEN AROUND JOHN WESLEY AT HOME ... - Kristoffersen

The higher Priesthood also have their seats in theHouse of Lords. It is also the Archbishops who crownkings and Queens even if the king or queen is the highestauthority of the Anglican Church and appoints Bishops andArchbishops. The Church had no women Priests in EnglandAt the time I studied at Cambridge 1973. The Church hadwomen Priests in the Common Wealth such as in HongKong at that time. In England the reigning Monarch isalways the head of the Church as at present is QueenElizabeth II.Today it is different. There are now women priestsin England. I have attended several Divine Services andwedding Ceremonies lead by women Priests.I read about the difference between the AnglicanChurch and the Methodist Church at that time, in the bookThe Story of Methodism. I quote from the book on page178:“ Methodism was a spirit; it was amovement; it was a life. Anglicanismwas an order, a rubric, a theory. TheMethodists, in the main, had littlecommerce of spirit with the Anglicans;the Anglicans had less with theMethodists.”Today it is different with an ecumenical spiritinfluencing both the Anglican Church and the MethodistChurch.7