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In 2017, German bishop Gebhard Fürst supported the ordination of women to the diaconate. [101] In October 2019 German bishop Franz-Josef Overbeck said many Catholic people don't understand why women are unable to be deacons or priests, which he thinks should be changed. [102] German bishop Georg Bätzing supported women ordination. [103]
Today, over half of all American Protestant denominations ordain women, [136] but some restrict the official positions a woman can hold. For instance, some ordain women for the military or hospital chaplaincy but prohibit them from serving in congregational roles. Over one-third of all seminary students (and in some seminaries nearly half) are ...
The Evangelical Wesleyan Church (EWC) does not ordain women as elders although it does commission women as deaconesses. [53] The Fundamental Methodist Conference does not ordain women. [citation needed] The Southern Methodist Church does not ordain women. [citation needed] The Free Methodist Church has ordained women since 1911. [54]
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According to Zagano, "While in modern times ordination has been restricted to men, this has not always been the case. Women were ordained deacons up until the fifth century in the West and up to the 11th century in the East." [208] According to Macy, the meaning of ordination during the Medieval Era was not what it is today.
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Barbara C. Harris, who was senior warden at Church of the Advocate and would later become the first woman ordained bishop in the Episcopal Church on February 11, 1989, served as crucifer for the service [22] [23] Patricia Merchant Park, one of the leaders of the Episcopal Women’s Caucus [24] and the second woman to be regularly ordained as a ...
Advocates for a greater role for women in the Catholic Church say Pope Francis is failing their cause at a global meeting of Church leaders drawing to a close this week, by shunting aside the ...