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References are made within the earliest Christian communities to the role of women in positions of church leadership. Paul's letter to the Romans, written in the first century, commends Phoebe who is described as "deaconess of the church at Cenchreae" that she be received "in the Lord as befits the saints, and help her in whatever she may require from you, for she has been a helper of many and ...
The Orthodox Presbyterian Church does not ordain women. [74] The Reformed Church in America began allowing for the ordination of women in 1979. [75] The United Church of Christ. Antoinette Brown was ordained as a minister by a Congregationalist Church in 1853, though this was not recognized by her denomination. [76] She later became a Unitarian ...
Some (most notably former LDS Church members D. Michael Quinn and Margaret Toscano) have argued that the church ordained women in the past and that therefore the church currently has the power to ordain women and should do so; [196] [197] however, there are no known records of any women having been ordained to the priesthood. [198]
The Catholic Church teaches that one bishop is sufficient to consecrate a new bishop validly (that is, for an episcopal ordination actually to take place). In most Christian denominations that retain the practice of ordination, only an already ordained (consecrated) bishop or the equivalent may ordain bishops, priests, and deacons. [8]
For some Protestants, whether called an elder, bishop, or pastor, these terms describe the same service in the church. In the early Church, only a man could be a presbyter [citation needed], but many Protestant denominations in the 19th and 20th century have changed to allow women to be pastors. Whether man or woman, this person is to be older ...
In 1946, the Church of the United Brethren in Christ united with the Evangelical Church to form the Evangelical United Brethren Church. The Evangelical Church had never ordained women. The Bishops from both churches agreed to not ordain women in the newly formed church, but there was never a vote on it at annual conference.
In denominations that ordain both men and women, a married couple might serve as co-pastors. Certain denominations require a prospective pastor to be married before he can be ordained, based on the view (drawn from 1 Timothy 3 and Titus 1) that a man must demonstrate the ability to run a household before he can be entrusted with the church.
This was the last expansion in the official roles open to women in the AME Church until 1948 when the Church reversed the decision of 1888 to ordain women as Local Deacons. [ 6 ] [ 7 ] It appears that Rebecca M. Glover, assistant pastor of the Metropolitan African Methodist Episcopal Church was the first woman to be ordained following the new ...