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Jane Hwang - along with Joyce M. Bennett, first regularly ordained Anglican priests in Hong Kong; Penny Jamieson - first woman to become a bishop in the Anglican Church in Aotearoa, New Zealand and Polynesia; first woman to become a diocesan bishop in the Anglican Communion. Florence Li Tim-Oi - first woman ordained as an Anglican priest
Journey to priesthood: an in-depth study of the first women priests in the Church of England. Centre for Comparative Studies in Religion and Gender, University of Bristol. ISBN 0-86292-499-5. Angela Berners-Wilson (October 2003). "A Woman at the Table - A Personal Reflection on Ten Years of Women as Priests". Ministry Today (29).
Sarcophagus of the Egyptian priestess Iset-en-kheb, 25th–26th Dynasty (7th–6th century BC). In Ancient Egyptian religion, God's Wife of Amun was the highest ranking priestess; this title was held by a daughter of the High Priest of Amun, during the reign of Hatshepsut, while the capital of Egypt was in Thebes during the second millennium BC (circa 2160 BC).
As of 2013, a minority in the Association of U.S. Catholic Priests support ordaining women to the priesthood and a majority favour allowing woman deacons. [103] In 2014, the Association of Catholic Priests in Ireland stated that the Catholic Church must ordain women and allow priests to marry in order to survive. [104]
Full-time missionaries (female) "Sister [surname]" ... Presbyter is the official name of the ministers commonly called 'priest'; persons ordained to the presbyterate ...
Oct. 25—When she comes up to the altar rail to receive a blessing during Communion while wearing her clerical vestments, the Rev. Anne Tropeano — known as "Father Anne" — receives a variety ...
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]
McGee was the first female chaplain and assistant director of campus ministry at American University’s multi-denominational Kay Spiritual Life Center from 1972–1980. [85] She was married to Episcopal priest Kyle McGee in 1968 and ordained as a deacon in the Diocese of Washington on October 27, 1974.