, the culmination of years of endeavors by Church modernizers to overcome restriction from traditionalists - one of whom quickly yelled a challenge amid the administration.
More than two decades after the Church permitted ladies to be priests, 48-year-old mother-of-two the Reverend Libby Lane got to be Bishop of Stockport in a function at York Minster, a Gothic house of God in northern England.
The dissapproval came as John Sentamu, Archbishop of York, asked the assembly whether Lane ought to be sancified as Bishop.
As the gathering chorused its approval, a solitary man's voice yelled above them: "No, it is not in the Bible."
At the point when Sentamu asked the question once more, there was no difference and the service proceeded.
Amid the administration, which finished in commendation, Sentamu and different religious administrators ritualistically laid their hands and prayed to God for her.
Eailier, Lane had talked about what she trusted her sancification would accomplish for ladies.
"In the event that consecration supports a solitary young woman to lift her eyes up a bit and to understand that she has potentials and that her surroundings or those around her don't have to direct what is workable for her, then I'd be truly regarded" she said inn interview by the Church.
Her consecration,advertised in December, has been hailed as a venture forward for sexual orientation balance by Archbishop of Canterbury Justin Welby, profound leaders of the Church, and by numerous others including Prime Minister David Cameron.
Notwithstanding, a moderate minority say the Bible requests male authority.
The overall Anglican group has been profoundly part over the issue of ladies pastorate. Ladies as of now serve as religious administrators in the United States, Canada, Australia and New Zealand, yet Anglican Churches in numerous developing nations, especially in Africa, don't appoint ladies as clerics.
After that setback, the Church thought of new recommendations which picked up more extensive acknowledgement and were affirmed by the Synod a year ago.
Ladies have served as ministers in the Church of England since 1994. Path was appointed in 1994. She has been vicar of a congregation in the edge of Manchester since 2007, and also Dean of Women in Ministry in the ward of Cheste
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