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  2. Women in a Celtic Church - Wikipedia

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    Women in a Celtic Church: Ireland 450–1150 is a historical study of the role of women in the religious institutions of Early Medieval Ireland written by the American academic Christina Harrington, it was first published by Oxford University Press in 2002.

  3. Celtic Christianity - Wikipedia

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    Celtic Christianity [a] is a form of Christianity that was common, or held to be common, across the Celtic-speaking world during the Early Middle Ages. [1] The term Celtic Church is deprecated by many historians as it implies a unified and identifiable entity entirely separate from that of mainstream Western Christendom. [2]

  4. Ancient Celtic women - Wikipedia

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    In British Celtic law, women had in many respects (for instance marriage law) a better position than Greek and Roman women. [26] According to Irish and Welsh law, attested from the Early Middle Ages , a woman was always under the authority of a man, first her father, then her husband, and, if she was widowed, her son.

  5. Women held keys to land and wealth in Celtic Britain

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    Women in Britain 2,000 years ago appear to have passed on land and wealth to daughters not sons as communities were built around women's blood lines, according to new research.

  6. Kathleen Hughes (historian) - Wikipedia

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    The Celtic Church and the Papacy, pp. 1–28, in The English Church and the Papacy in the Middle Ages, ed. C.H. Laurence, London, 1965. Some Aspects of Irish Influence on Early English Private Prayer, pp. 48–61, Studia Celtica 5, 1970. Sancity and Secularity in the Early Irish Church, pp. 21-37, in Studies in Church History 10, 1973.

  7. Timeline of women in religion in the United States - Wikipedia

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    1879: The Church of Christ, Scientist was founded in New England by an American woman, Mary Baker Eddy. [13] [14] [15] 1880: Anna Howard Shaw was the first woman ordained in the Methodist Protestant Church, an American church which later merged with other denominations to form the United Methodist Church. [16]

  8. Women in Church history - Wikipedia

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    Women in Church history have played a variety of roles in the life of Christianity—notably as contemplatives, health care givers, educationalists and missionaries. Until recent times, women were generally excluded from episcopal and clerical positions within the certain Christian churches; however, great numbers of women have been influential in the life of the church, from contemporaries of ...

  9. Catholicate of the West - Wikipedia

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    The Catholicate of the West was a Christian denomination established in 1944 and which ceased to exist in 1994 to become the British Orthodox Church.. The denomination was also known as the Catholic Apostolic Church, the Catholicate of the West (Catholic Apostolic Church), The United Orthodox Catholic Rite, The Celtic Catholic Church, the Patriarchate of Glastonbury, The Western Orthodox ...