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Page last updated at 19:54 GMT, Sunday, 6 July 2008 20:54 UK

Synod votes for women bishops

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The Church of England's ruling body, the General Synod, has voted in favour of measures to allow the ordination of women bishops.

Some 1,300 clergy had threatened to leave the Church if safeguards were not agreed to reassure traditionalists. Robert Pigott reports.

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