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  2. Ordination of women in Christianity - Wikipedia

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    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 ...

  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. Timeline of women in religion in the United States - Wikipedia

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    The Rocky Mountain Conference (RMC) of the Seventh-day Adventist Church approved ordaining women pastors. [231] 2023: In June 2023, the Christian and Missionary Alliance of the United States approved women being ordained as pastors, but only if the women's local church leadership approves, and never as senior or lead pastors. [232]

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    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).

  6. Ordination of women and the Catholic Church - Wikipedia

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    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, [49] 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 ...

  7. Timeline of women's ordination - Wikipedia

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    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.

  8. Ordination of women in the Church of Scotland - Wikipedia

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    Consequently, the theological arguments for and against the ordination of women as elders were identical to those concerning women ministers, and the two debates ran in parallel and were settled more or less simultaneously. The General Assembly changed its legislation to allow the ordination of women as elders in 1966 and as ministers in 1968. [3]

  9. Louisa Woosley - Wikipedia

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    Louisa Mariah Layman Woosley (March 24, 1862 – June 30, 1952) was the first woman ordained as a minister in any Presbyterian denomination. She was ordained by the Cumberland Presbyterian Church on November 5, 1889.