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[F14E+W+SThe office of diocesan or suffragan bishop is not a public office.]
Textual Amendments
F1 Sch. 6 para. 4 and cross-heading inserted (17.11.2014) by Bishops and Priests (Consecration and Ordination of Women) Measure 2014 (No. 2), ss. 2, 4(2); 2014 No. 5, art. 2