The occasion was the Commissioning Service of the Mothers' Union Province of Wales and St Davids Diocese officers.
In his eloquent address, the Archbishop pulled no punches in his effort to bring home to women the importance of their role in the Church.

He began with a graphic description of the diversity of family life in todays Wales and went on to describe the role of women in the Church as most often supportive and frequently subservient.

Using current statistics across Wales and in each Diocese, he made an impassioned plea for women to take their place in the governance of the Church in Wales.

He described sayings that women are over-represented and under-authorised as having some foundation but refuted absolutely the dogma that subordination [of women] is in the creative order of things.

He quoted Galatians 3:26 which pronounces that in Him you are all one.
The Archbishops important, unequivocal message to the many Mothers' Union members and friends present in the Cathedral was that the Church needs to look at how it uses all the talents of its members and he encouraged women to see and embrace their role in the Churchs governance.

Mothers' Union senior executive officers installed at the Cathedral during the service included were:
Mrs Ann Gill Pan-Wales Provincial President
Rev Canon Bryan Witt - Pan-Wales Provincial Chaplain
Mrs Brenda Evans St Davids Diocesan President

* Knox, John, The First Blast of the Trumpet Against the Monstrous Regiment of Women, pamphlet (1558).