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"A Woman at the Table - A Personal Reflection on Ten Years of Women as Priests". Ministry Today (29). Archived from the original on 7 October 2011. Jan Fortune-Wood (2008). Stale Bread and Miracles: A Collection of micro fiction stories on the selection to the diaconate work as a woman priest. ISBN 1-905614-98-5.
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.
Christine Lee was ordained as the Episcopal Church's first female Korean-American priest. [196] Alma Louise De bode-Olton became the first female priest ordained in the Anglican Episcopal Church in Curaçao. [197] On April 23, 2012, the North German Union of the Seventh-day Adventist Church voted to ordain women as ministers. [198]
It had ordained 32 women as its first female priests in March 1994. [145] In 2015 Rachel Treweek was consecrated as the first female diocesan bishop in the Church of England (Diocese of Gloucester). [146] She and Sarah Mullally, Bishop of Crediton, were the first women to be consecrated and ordained bishop in Canterbury Cathedral. [146]
The dioceses are listed in chronological order of the dates they ordained the first women as priests. The women are listed alphabetically under the diocese in which they were ordained. The last name is the name they were ordained under. A later married name is in brackets after their last name and a preferred first name is also in brackets ...
The first woman (already a deacon) canonically ordained to the priesthood on January 1, 1977, was Jacqueline A. Means, ordained by Donald J. Davis, Bishop of Erie, in the Episcopal Church of All Saints in Indianapolis. [45] By the end of January 1977 about forty women had been ordained priests and an additional sixty by the end of the year.
In 1967 Noemi Diaz is the first Hispanic woman ordained by an Annual Conference. The New York Annual Conference did the honors. [47] [48] [49] The first woman elected and consecrated Bishop within the United Methodist Church (and, indeed, the first woman elected bishop of any mainline Christian church) was Marjorie Matthews in 1980. [50]
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