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The Church of England is dying and irrelevant as a cultural force. Attendance numbers have been declining steadily since the 90s:
https://faithsurvey.co.uk/uk-christianity.html*
http://www.brin.ac.uk/figures/church-attendance-in-britain-1980-2015/
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/sep/07/church-in-crisis-as-only-2-of-young-adults-identify-as-c-of-e
in particular, the takeup among the young is shockingly low, and those people are your future worshippers.
Whatever cultural steps it tries to make are one or two years behind the current liberal consesus. OP brings up the rejection of women bishops: more recently, the Church said that they could not define precisely what a woman was: https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11000401/Church-England-woman-decide.html, which rather raises the question of not quite knowing what something is, but whatever it is it can't gain rank in the organisation. I would put money on it not existing in half a century from now.
*Interestingly, those demoninations that are growing in number are those that actively reject established churches such as the CoFE and the Catholic Church. These churches tend to believe in some whacky things, and in some things that are incompatible with western thought. As these people are one of the few groups having children and forming any sense of cohesive community, they may be powerful players in the politics of the future.
If someone can tell me how tf you do links as you could on old reddit, that would be highly appreciated.
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