[WATCH News] Another Woman Bishop in the Anglican Communion

I've just sent you a Newsflash about corrections to our information on Woman Bishops in the Anglican Communion.

And now I have news of another woman bishop!

Lydia Mamakwa was consecrated  Area Bishop of Northern Ontario in the Diocese of Keewatin in Canada on  4 May 2010.   An aboriginal priest from Kingfisher Lake, an Oji-Cree First Nation located north of Sioux Lookout, Bishop Lydia Mamakwa says the election of an area bishop to serve native parishes is a giant step in the fulfillment of what native clergy has long envisioned. "They want to do things for the churchŠto be self-reliant and self-determining within the Anglican Church of Canada," she says. "I want to carry that vision."

Lydia becomes  the first First Nation woman to become a bishop. She is married to James Mamakwa, chief of Kingfisher Lake Nation.

So it was to have been 29 women bishops, but Bishop Nerva Cot has died, so sadly we

remain as 28 women bishops in the Anglican Communion.