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Lydia Emelie Gruchy (September 5, 1894 – April 9, 1992) was a French-born Canadian who became the first woman ordained to the ministry of the United Church of Canada.She was the first woman to enroll in theological studies, to graduate from a Presbyterian theological college and also the first woman to be granted an honorary Doctor of Divinity degree in Canada.
Anne Marguerite Squire (née Park; October 17, 1920 – April 24, 2017), 31st Moderator of the United Church of Canada from 1986 to 1988, was the first female lay person elected to that post. Her time as Moderator was marked by controversy over the question of whether members of the LGBTQ community should be ordained.
Lois Miriam Freeman was born in Winnipeg in 1927, [1] the daughter of the Rev. E.G.D. (Gard) Freeman, a minister, and Ada Freeman, a teacher. [2] Lois was born into the United Church of Canada — her father had been a Presbyterian minister, but had become a minister of the newly formed United Church when Methodists, Presbyterians and Congregationalists had amalgamated two years before Lois's ...
Carmen Lansdowne (born 1975) is a minister of the United Church of Canada who is currently the 44th Moderator of that church. Lansdowne is the first Indigenous woman to lead a religious denomination in Canada.
The United Church of Canada ordains women. The church was divided during the 1930s by this issue inherited from the churches it brought together, the United Church ordained its first woman minister, Reverend Lydia Emelie Gruchy, of Saskatchewan Conference in 1936. In 1953, Reverend Lydia Emelie Gruchy was the first Canadian woman to receive an ...
The United Church diaconate dates back to the establishment of Presbyterian and Methodist Deaconess Orders and Deaconness training schools in the 1890's. In the 1980s Deaconesses, Certified Churchmen, and Commissioned Ministers became known as Diaconal Ministers.
Due to their work, the United Church of Canada divested from fossil fuels in 2015. [9] In 2015, Boyle traveled to the Vatican to participate in events surrounding Laudato Si. [10] She was also a delegate to the COP21 climate talks on behalf of the United Church of Canada. [11]
In the United States, Methodists had been ordaining women from 1880, [21] but it was still a contentious issue in Canada, and it was not until 1936 that the Reverend Lydia Emelie Gruchy of the Saskatchewan Conference became the first woman in the United Church to be ordained [20] and, in 1953, she became the first Canadian woman to receive an ...