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Name and Role Period of Activity Region of Origin Description and Legacy Thecla (Disciple of Paul the Apostle) fl. 30 CE: Iconium: Thecla, featured in The Acts of Paul and Thecla, is celebrated for her celibacy, preaching, and advocacy for equality. Although often considered more legendary than historical due to its hagiographic nature and lack ...
Pages in category "Christian female saints of the Middle Ages" The following 132 pages are in this category, out of 132 total.
Women in Church history have played a variety of roles in the life of Christianity—notably as contemplatives, health care givers, educationalists and missionaries. Until recent times, women were generally excluded from episcopal and clerical positions within the certain Christian churches; however, great numbers of women have been influential in the life of the church, from contemporaries of ...
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 ...
A Catholic document from 2001 [95] made clear that, even if a bishop decided to permit female altar servers, the priest in charge of a church in that diocese was not obliged to accept them, since there was no question of anyone, male or female, having a right to become an altar server. Furthermore, the document states that: "it will always be ...
Ecumenical Patriarch [insert name], His All-Holiness, Your All-Holiness. Bishop of Constantinople, with primacy within Orthodox communion; Successor of Saint Andrew the Apostle, one of the 12 Apostles of Jesus Christ: Patriarch: Patriarch [insert name] of [place], Patriarch, His Beatitude, Your Beatitude.
Recognition of the feminine aspect of God during the last century by Tantric and Shakti religious leaders, has led to the legitimization of the female teachers and female gurus in Hinduism. A notable example was Ramakrishna, who worshiped his wife as the embodiment of the divine feminine. Sulabha; Andal; Meerabai; Akka Mahadevi; Lal Ded; Avvaiyar
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