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The female diaconate: an historical perspective (Light and Life, 1991) ISBN 0-937032-80-8; Ingersol, S. (n.d.). The deaconess in Nazarene history. Herald of Holiness, 36. Jurisson, Cynthia A. "The Deaconess Movement" in Rosemary Skinner Keller et al., eds. Encyclopedia of Women and Religion in North America (Indiana U.P., 2006). pp. 821–33 online
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 ...
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 ...
Lady Grisell Baillie (1822–1891), the first deaconess in the Church of Scotland The Church of Scotland was one of the first national churches to accept the ordination of women . In Presbyterianism , ordination is understood to be an ordinance rather than a sacrament ; ministers and elders are ordained; until recently deacons were ...
Katharine Jefferts Schori was elected in 2006 as the first female Presiding Bishop of the U.S. Episcopal Church and also the first female primate in the Anglican Communion. [1] The ordination of women to ministerial or priestly office is an increasingly common practice among some contemporary major religious groups. [2]
Kathleen Richardson was the first female leader of the British Methodist Conference. On 2 July 1974, the Methodist Conference in Bristol ordained 17 women as presbyters (ministers). [ 1 ] [ 36 ] The number of women ministers has grown to roughly equal male ministers.
The Amazonian synod called for a continued study of the female diaconate. Pope Francis promised first to re-open the previous commission but then decided to established a new commission on 8 April 2020 with the following members: [28] Giuseppe Petrocchi, Cardinal and president of the Commission
The first female deacons were ordained in the Church of England. [88] Erica Lippitz and Marla Rosenfeld Barugel became the first two female hazzans (also called cantors) ordained in Conservative Judaism; they were ordained at the same time by the Cantors Institute of the Jewish Theological Seminary in New York City. [89] [90] [91] 1988: