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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]

  5. Paul the Apostle and women - Wikipedia

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    Jewish women disciples, including Mary Magdalene, Joanna, and Susanna, had accompanied Jesus during his ministry and supported him out of their private means. [2] Although the details of these gospel stories may be questioned, in general they reflect the prominent historical roles women played as disciples in Jesus' ministry.

  6. Timeline of women's ordination - Wikipedia

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    The first two women so ordained were Kathleen Margaret Brown and Irene Templeton. 1991: The Presbyterian Church of Australia ceased ordaining women to the ministry in 1991, but the rights of women ordained prior to this time were not affected. The Cooperative Baptist Fellowship, which supports ordaining women, was founded in 1991. [84] 1992:

  7. Ordination of women - Wikipedia

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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).

  8. Ordination of women and the Catholic Church - Wikipedia

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    On May 22, 1994, John Paul II promulgated Ordinatio sacerdotalis, where he states that the Church cannot confer priestly ordination on women: Wherefore, in order that all doubt may be removed regarding a matter of great importance, a matter which pertains to the Church's divine constitution itself, in virtue of my ministry of confirming the ...

  9. List of women in the Bible - Wikipedia

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    Jesus's interactions with women; List of women in the Bible; Ordination of women; Paul the Apostle and women; ... The list appears in alphabetical order. A