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  2. Dorothy Wadham - Wikipedia

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    Dorothy died on 16 May 1618, at the Wadham dower house, Edge, in the parish of Branscombe, Devon. Her body was taken to Merrifield and was buried on 16 June alongside that of her husband in the Wadham Chapel inside the Church of St Mary, Ilminster, Somerset. The monument to Nicholas and Dorothy Wadham is the principal monument in the church.

  3. List of ordained Christian women - Wikipedia

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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.

  4. St Mary's Church, Ilminster - Wikipedia

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    Among the principal features are the Wadham tombs; those of Sir William Wadham of Merryfield and Edge and of his mother, dated 1452, and Nicholas and Dorothy Wadham, 1609 and 1618, co-founders of Wadham College, Oxford. The tower, which was built in the first quarter of the 16th century, [2] rises two storeys above the nave. It has three bays ...

  5. Obstacles remain as women seek more leadership roles in ...

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    The African Methodist Episcopal Church estimates that one-fourth of its total staff are women, including 1,052 ordained ministers. In the Black Church as a whole, male pastors predominate, though ...

  6. Women in Church history - Wikipedia

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    Women in Church history have played a variety of roles in the life of Christianity—notably as contemplatives, health care givers, educationalists and missionaries. Until recent times, women were generally excluded from episcopal and clerical positions within the certain Christian churches; however, great numbers of women have been influential in the life of the church, from contemporaries of ...

  7. Timeline of women's ordination - Wikipedia

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    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. This was the first time the Anglican Church of Bermuda ordained women for ministry. [245]

  8. Why this 103-year-old woman was banned from church

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    The 103-year-old believes the reason she was banned is because she spoke out about the church's pastor, Rev. Tim Maddox. "He told police he wanted to put us out, but the police told him 'you can't ...

  9. Wadham College, Oxford - Wikipedia

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    The college was founded by Dorothy Wadham (née Petre) in 1610, [7] according to the wishes set out in the will of her husband Nicholas Wadham.Over four years, she gained royal and ecclesiastical support for the new college, negotiated the purchase of a site, appointed the West Country architect William Arnold, drew up the college statutes, and appointed the first warden, fellows, scholars ...