Female bishops
The Reverend Libby Lane was ordained as Bishop of Stockport, the Church of England’s first female bishop.
— By the time the first 32 female C of E vicars were ordained in 1994, the Episcopal Diocese of Massachusetts had had a female bishop, Barbara Harris, for five years.
— Yet the first Anglican woman priest was ordained half a century earlier. Florence Li Tim-Oi had been deacon at Macao Protestant Chapel in the early 1940s. When the war prevented a priest travelling from Japanese-occupied territory to administer communion, Li Tim-Oi was ordained by the Bishop of Victoria on 25 January 1944.
Cash or card?
The managing director of Visa said that within ten years it would be ‘peculiar’ to pay for purchases by cash rather than contactless card. How well is the business doing in persuading us to give up cash?
| Notes and coins in circulation | |
| Jan 2013 | £63.5 |
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