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  2. Ordination of women in Christianity - Wikipedia

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    The Primitive Methodist Church does not ordain women as elders nor does it license them as pastors or local preachers; [52] the PMC does consecrate women as deaconesses. [52] 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 ...

  3. Ordination of women in Methodism - Wikipedia

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    In 1942, the Fundamental Methodist Conference split from the Methodist Church and it does not ordain women. The Evangelical Methodist Church split from the Methodist Church in 1945 and does ordain women as elders. On May 4, 1956, in Minneapolis, Minnesota, the General Conference of the Methodist Church approved full clergy rights for women ...

  4. Ordination of women and the Catholic Church - Wikipedia

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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 ...

  5. Ordination of women in the Church of Scotland - Wikipedia

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    In a Presbyterian Church, elders (who together with the minister form the kirk session and fulfill some of the functions of a parish council in other denominations) are ordained for life (ad vitam aut culpam) though in some cases without the laying-on of hands. The minister ("minister of Word and Sacrament", to use the full title) is a ...

  6. Mormonism and women - Wikipedia

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    The LDS Church does not recognize trans women as women, but defines gender as the "biological sex at birth". [1] The church teaches that if a person is born intersex, the decision to determine the child's sex is left to the parents, with the guidance of medical professionals, and that such decisions can be made at birth or can be delayed until medically necessary.

  7. The Rev. Karen Georgia Thompson, who last year became the first woman and woman of color elected general minister and president of the socially liberal United Church of Christ, agrees churches are ...

  8. Elder (Christianity) - Wikipedia

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    In Christianity, an elder is a person who is valued for wisdom and holds a position of responsibility and authority in a Christian group. In some Christian traditions (e.g., Eastern Orthodoxy, Roman Catholicism, Anglicanism, Methodism) an elder is an ordained person who serves a local church or churches and who has been ordained to a ministry of word, sacrament and order, filling the preaching ...

  9. Dallas pastor removed indefinitely due to 'inappropriate ...

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    A Dallas pastor has been removed indefinitely from the church he has served at since 2018 due to him having an "inappropriate relationship" with a woman, according to the church's leadership.

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