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Vanessa Bennett has a mitre placed on her head as part of her consecration as Assistant Bishop of the Anglican diocese of Canberra and Goulburn.. In September 2007 a majority of the Appellate Tribunal of the Anglican Church of Australia decided nothing in the church's constitution prevented a diocese from consecrating women priests as bishops.
The dioceses are listed in chronological order of the dates they ordained the first women as priests. The women are listed alphabetically under the diocese in which they were ordained. The last name is the name they were ordained under. A later married name is in brackets after their last name and a preferred first name is also in brackets ...
Kay Goldsworthy (Archbishop of Perth, and Metropolitan of Western Australia, 2017–present) Melissa M. Skelton (Archbishop of New Westminster and Metropolitan of the Ecclesiastical Province of British Columbia and Yukon, 2018–2021) Anne Germond (Archbishop of Algoma and Metropolitan of the Ecclesiastical Province of Ontario, 2018–present)
Elizabeth Alfred (10 January 1914 – 2 February 2015) was an Anglican priest in Melbourne, Australia. She was the first woman to be ordained as a priest in the Anglican Diocese of Melbourne , in 1992.
The Anglican Church of Australia began to ordain women as priests in 1992 and in the late 1990s embarked on a protracted debate over the ordination of women as bishops, a debate that was ultimately decided through the church's appellate tribunal, which ruled on 28 September 2007 that there is nothing in the church's constitution that would ...
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.
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Elizabeth Joyce Smith AM (born 1956) is an Australian Anglican priest and hymnist. She has published three collections of hymns, and several of her hymns have been included in the ecumenical hymnal Together in Song. Ordained a deacon in the Anglican Church in Australia in 1987, Smith became a priest in 1993. She earned a PhD from the Pacific ...