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The Evangelical Church of the Augsburg Confession in Poland ordains women as pastors since 2022. 9 pastors are women. The Evangelical Church of the Augsburg Confession in Slovakia ordains women as pastors since 1951 and women can be elected bishops. The Slovak Evangelical Church of the Augsburg Confession in Serbia ordains women as pastors. Out ...
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.
Journey to priesthood: an in-depth study of the first women priests in the Church of England. Centre for Comparative Studies in Religion and Gender, University of Bristol. ISBN 0-86292-499-5. Angela Berners-Wilson (October 2003). "A Woman at the Table - A Personal Reflection on Ten Years of Women as Priests". Ministry Today (29).
Dorothy Sanders Wells took over her new job as Episcopal bishop on May 1 and has been visiting churches across the state to listen to their needs.
The Southern Baptist Convention failed to amend its constitution to ban women as pastors.
The Evangelical Church of the Augsburg Confession in Poland ordained women as pastors for the first time. [243] The Rocky Mountain Conference (RMC) of the Seventh-day Adventist Church approved ordaining women pastors. [244] Lorita Packwood and Jennie Foster Skelton were ordained as the first female deacons in the Anglican Church of Bermuda ...
The Southern Baptist Convention on Tuesday ousted its second-largest congregation — Saddleback Church, the renowned California megachurch founded by pastor and best-selling author Rick Warren ...
Women were first elected to the procurer of the Bahá'í Local Spiritual Assembly of Chicago – the Bahai Temple Unity. Of the nine members elected by secret ballot three were women with Corinne True (later appointed as a Hand of the Cause) serving as an officer. [24] 1911: Ann Allebach was the first Mennonite woman to be ordained. [3]