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Nancy Ledins (born William F. Griglak; July 27, 1932 – July 18, 2017) was an American Roman Catholic priest who came out as a transgender woman. At the time of her transition she was still considered a priest even after having resigned from official church roles, due to her never being returned to lay status.
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.
The Rev. Mother Davette Turk of Jacksonville, Florida's first woman Episcopal priest, died July 19 at 87 after a long battle with Alzheimer's disease.
A longtime Roman Catholic priest who grew up in Bristol and served in Providence has died after contracting COVID-19. The Rev. Joseph D. Santos, 62, who was the administrator of Holy Name Parish ...
Name Birth Birthplace Death Place of death Beatification date Canonization date Notes Pope John Paul II: 1920 Wadowice, Poland: 2005 Vatican City: May 1, 2011 April 27, 2014 Pope [1] Blessed Leonella Sgorbati: 1940 Piacenza, Italy: 2006 Mogadishu, Somalia: May 26, 2018 Nun and martyr Blessed Carlo Acutis: 1991 London, United Kingdom: 2006 Monza ...
Died: early June 1549 to July 1715 in Florida, United States Professed Priests and Religious, Dominicans , Jesuits , Franciscan Friars Minor and Hospitallers of Saint John of God ; Married and Young Laypersons of the Dioceses of Pensacola–Tallahassee, Saint Augustine, Orlando and Venice
The Rev. Eleanor Lee McGee Street, a Yale Divinity School graduate whose unauthorized ordination as a priest in the Episcopal Church in the 1970s blazed a trail for female clergy within the ...