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In many denominations of Christianity the ordination of women is a relatively recent phenomenon within the life of the Church. As opportunities for women have expanded in the last 50 years, those ordained women who broke new ground or took on roles not traditionally held by women in the Church have been and continue to be considered notable.
While the Church of Sweden ordained its first female pastors in 1960, there was a considerable debate in this church of the ordination of women, which led to marginalization of a vocal high-church minority, which successively subdivided into loyalist high-church adherents on one hand and the splinter group Missionsprovinsen which was formed in ...
Sarcophagus of the Egyptian priestess Iset-en-kheb, 25th–26th Dynasty (7th–6th century BC). In Ancient Egyptian religion, God's Wife of Amun was the highest ranking priestess; this title was held by a daughter of the High Priest of Amun, during the reign of Hatshepsut, while the capital of Egypt was in Thebes during the second millennium BC (circa 2160 BC).
Renita J. Weems, ordained minister, a Hebrew Bible scholar, and an author Delores S. Williams , American Presbyterian theologian notable for her formative role in the development of womanist theology Traci D. Blackmon , minister and spiritual leader involved in peaceful protests during unrest in Ferguson, Missouri in 2014
In contrast to the ordination of women to the Catholic priesthood, the ordination of women to the diaconate is being actively discussed by Catholic scholars, [54] and theologians, as well as senior clergy. The historical evidence points to women serving in ordained roles from its earliest days in both the Western Church as well as the Eastern ...
1880: Anna Howard Shaw was the first woman ordained in the Methodist Protestant Church, an American church which later merged with other denominations to form the United Methodist Church. [13] 1883: Ellen G. White was the first woman ordained in the Seventh-Day-Adventist Church by the Michigan Conference in the United States.
At the same conference, a resolution was introduced to limit the roles of female preachers within the Church. It aimed to end the practice of appointing women as pastors. [6] The next year, Bishop Henry McNeal Turner ordained Sarah A. Hughes as a Deacon in the North Carolina Conference as the first woman ordained within the AME Church. [3]
1912: Olive Winchester, born in America, became the first woman ordained by any trinitarian Christian denomination in the United Kingdom when she was ordained by the Church of the Nazarene. [54] [55] 1914: The Assemblies of God was founded and ordained its first woman pastors in 1914. [12] 1917: