Some bishops opposed to the ordaining of women said there would be an even greater migration to protest women as bishops.

If St Paul could appeal to Caesar, so could the bishops opposed to Paul of Samosata.

In particular, a spray-painted image of a chessboard depicting a toppled king surrounded by bishops, knights and rooks opposed by several rows of amassed pawns that the artist drew on the campus of the American University in Cairo was widely noted.

He was one of the most theologically conservative bishops during his tenure and would be one of the last Episcopal bishops opposed to women's ordination.

In Australia Peter Carnley similarly led a front of bishops opposed to the Government of Australia's involvement in the invasion of Iraq.

A group of conservative bishops opposed to homosexual ordination and marriage, including most of the "global south", will be gathering in June 2008 at the Global Anglican Future Conference.