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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]
In 2017, German bishop Gebhard Fürst supported the ordination of women to the diaconate. [106] In October 2019 German bishop Franz-Josef Overbeck said many Catholic people don't understand why women are unable to be deacons or priests, which he thinks should be changed. [107] German bishop Georg Bätzing supported women ordination. [108]
The Evangelical Wesleyan Church (EWC) does not ordain women as elders although it does commission women as deaconesses. [53] The Fundamental Methodist Conference does not ordain women. [citation needed] The Southern Methodist Church does not ordain women. [citation needed] The Free Methodist Church has ordained women since 1911. [54]
According to Zagano, "While in modern times ordination has been restricted to men, this has not always been the case. Women were ordained deacons up until the fifth century in the West and up to the 11th century in the East." [203] According to Macy, the meaning of ordination during the Medieval Era was not what it is today.
The "God Says Now" campaign has focused on getting the topic of women's ordination included in the study of the role of women in the church. Despite discussion of women's ordination in the initial ...
Advocates for a greater role for women in the Catholic Church say Pope Francis is failing their cause at a global meeting of Church leaders drawing to a close this week, by shunting aside the ...
In some denominations, women can be ordained to be an elder or deacon. Some denominations allow for the ordination of women for certain religious orders. Within certain traditions, such as the Anglican and Lutheran, there is a diversity of theology and practice regarding ordination of women.
The Roman Catholic Church says that they are having a priest shortage — not enough priests for the parishes in the tri-county area.. There is a simple solution to that: ordain women to the ...