THE "stained-glass ceiling" preventing women from becoming bishops in the Scottish Episcopal Church was lifted yesterday as the faith became the first in Britain to allow females to take the higher post.
Breaking a tradition hundreds of years old, the move means Scotland could have its first female bishop as early as next year, when the Rt Rev Douglas Cameron retires as bishop of Argyll and the Isles.
The Church yesterday insisted that the decision, expected to send ripples across other Anglican faiths considering a similar move, would not split its members.
However, members of the synod, the Episcopal parliament, accepted that a minority might leave the Church as a result of the vote, which was won by 124-24.
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