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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.
On September 12, 2021, the Mid-America Union Conference Constituency voted 82% to authorize the ordination of women in ministry, becoming the third union conference in the NAD to do so. [179] At the 60th GC session in San Antonio on July 8, 2015, [180] Seventh-day Adventists voted not to permit regional church bodies to ordain women pastors. [181]
The Methodist Church of Australasia first ordained women (Rev Margaret Sanders and Rev Coralie Ling) in 1969, while the Presbyterian Church of Australia ordained its first woman minister in 1974. After formation of the Uniting Church in Australia , the continuing Presbyterian Church of Australia reversed the decision to ordain women in 1991.
The Evangelical Lutheran Church of Latvia decided to ordain women as pastors, although since 1993, under the leadership of Archbishop Janis Vanags, it no longer does so. Dorothea W. Harvey became the first woman to be ordained by the Swedenborgian Church. [63] Barbara Ostfeld-Horowitz became the first ordained female cantor in Jewish history. [64]
In contrast to the ordination of women to the Catholic priesthood, the ordination of women to the diaconate is being actively discussed by Catholic scholars, [54] and theologians, as well as senior clergy. The historical evidence points to women serving in ordained roles from its earliest days in both the Western Church as well as the Eastern ...
The Southern Baptist Convention decided Tuesday to oust Saddleback Church, the second-largest congregation of the convention, because it has a female pastor.
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. In 1993, Kathleen Richardson was the first woman to be elected President of the Methodist Conference (leader of the Methodist Church in Britain).
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 ...
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