She was once the stay-at-home vicar’s wife, putting her career on hold to look after their young children, but now the Rev Libby Lane has leapfrogged her husband to become the Church of England’s nike roshe run sale first female bishop. Mrs Lane, 48, priest in charge of two busy parishes near Manchester, has been named as the next Bishop of Stockport, part of the Diocese of Chester, in the process becoming an unexpected symbol of women’s equality The appointment comes a month after the Church’s ruling General Synod formally enacted a historic change to canon law admitting women to the episcopate. Although she was part of a small group of female clerics joining meetings of the Church’s currently nike air jordan 3 all-male House of Bishops she was not widely recognised as a front-runner. The Bishop of Chester, the Rt Rev Peter Forster, who made the appointment, described her as someone who would bring new talent and energy to the job.