22.12.2006
Australian Lutherans Fail to Reach Majority Vote for Women's Ordination
At its 2006 Regular Convention, the Lutheran Church of Australia (LCA) failed to reach the required majority vote for women's ordination. The 26-29 September LCA General Pastors' Conference and the General Synod, meeting 30 September to 5 October in Toowoomba, Queensland, did not get the two-thirds majority required to adopt the vote.This was the second time in six years that the LCA governing body has rejected the proposal for women's ordination. The LCA has studied the issue of women's ordination since the 1990s.
The 75,000-member church has been an associate member church of the LWF since 1994. (109 words)
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