1.   Although the first generation of women priests had to fight to assert their identity, those problems have been ironed out.

2.   Not long ago, the Church of England voted to ordain women priests.

3.   The Church of England finally agreed to accept the ordination of women priests.

4.   The issue dividing the Church was the question of women priests.

5.   The vote came five years after the synod called for draft legislation to introduce women priests.

6.   There are still many traditionalists in the church who strongly oppose the idea of women priests.

7.   When he soundly supported the principle of women priests they made him modify his statement.