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The Anglican Church of Australia began to ordain women as priests in 1992 and in the late 1990s embarked on a protracted debate over the ordination of women as bishops, a debate that was ultimately decided through the church's appellate tribunal, which ruled on 28 September 2007 that there is nothing in the church's constitution that would ...
In 1917 the Church of England licensed women as lay readers called bishop's messengers, many of whom ran churches, but did not go as far as to ordain them. From 1930 to 1978 the Anglican Group for the Ordination of Women to the Historic Ministry promoted the ordination of women in the Church of England. [140]
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).
The Priests (Ordination of Women) Measure 1993 is a Church of England measure passed by the General Synod of the Church of England enabling the ordination of women in the Church of England. [1] Both Queen's Consent and Prince's Consent were required to pass the Measure. [2]
The Anglican Group for the Ordination of Women to the Historic Ministry of the Church existed from 1930 to 1978. [1] By research, education, publicity, and memorials to the church, it pushed the Church of England and the whole Anglican Communion to admit women to the historic three-fold ministry (bishops, priests, and deacons).
The Australian Movement for the Ordination of Women was founded in 1983 to advocate for the ordination of women as deacons, priests and bishops in the Anglican Church of Australia. [6] Dr Patricia Brennan was the founding national President. [7] She was succeeded by Dr Janet Scarfe in 1989. [6]
She is the first woman to be elected as a bishop in the Church of Ireland and the first woman to be an Anglican Communion bishop in Ireland and Great Britain. [22] [23] [24] The Church of England's General Synod voted in 2014 to allow women to be ordained to the episcopate, with Libby Lane being the first woman to be ordained bishop.
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.