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  2. 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.

  3. 1 Timothy 2:12 - Wikipedia

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    The verse is widely used to oppose ordination of women as clergy, and to oppose certain other positions of ministry and leadership for women in large segments of Christianity. Many such groups that do not permit women to become clergy also cite 1 Corinthians 14:32–35 [ 2 ] and 1 Timothy 3:1–7. [ 3 ]

  4. 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 ...

  5. 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.

  6. List of women in the Bible - Wikipedia

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    Candace – Ethiopian queen; a eunuch under her authority and in charge of her treasury was witnessed to by Philip the Evangelist, led to God and baptized.Acts [35]; Chloe – mentioned in Corinthians.

  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 in Methodism - Wikipedia

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    Although the original Primitive Methodist Church in Britain allowed female preachers and ministers, the current American branch of the Primitive Methodist Church does not ordain women as elders nor does it license them as pastors or local preachers; [6] the PMC does, however, consecrate women as deaconesses.

  9. Jesus's interactions with women - Wikipedia

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    From the beginning, Jewish women disciples, including Mary Magdalene, Joanna, Susanna, and Salome had accompanied Jesus during his ministry and supported him out of their private means. [ 8 ] [ 9 ] Kenneth E. Bailey [ 10 ] spent 40 years as a Presbyterian professor of New Testament in Egypt , Lebanon , Jerusalem and Cyprus .