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Elizabeth Catherine Ferard, first deaconess of the Church of England. The ministry of a deaconess is a usually non-ordained ministry for women in some Protestant, Oriental Orthodox, and Eastern Orthodox churches to provide pastoral care, especially for other women, and which may carry a limited liturgical role.
The Armenian Apostolic Church is still ordaining religious sisters as deaconesses; its last monastic deaconess was Sister Hripsime Sasounian (died in 2007) and on 25 September 2017, Ani-Kristi Manvelian, a twenty-four-year-old lay woman, was ordained in Tehran's St. Sarkis Mother Church as the first parish deaconess after many centuries. [52]
Eddie August Schneider's (1911–1940) death certificate, issued in New York.. A death certificate is either a legal document issued by a medical practitioner which states when a person died, or a document issued by a government civil registration office, that declares the date, location and cause of a person's death, as entered in an official register of deaths.
Anna Ellison Butler Alexander (c. 1865 – September 24, 1947) was the first and only African-American consecrated a deaconess in the Episcopal Church. [1] She served in the Episcopal Diocese of Georgia during her entire career, and may be remembered in the Calendar of saints on September 24.
Vital records are records of life events kept under governmental authority, including birth certificates, marriage licenses (or marriage certificates), separation agreements, divorce certificates or divorce party and death certificates. In some jurisdictions, vital records may also include records of civil unions or domestic partnerships.
Susanna the Deaconess (Ancient Greek: Σωσάννα ἡ διακόνισσα) is a deaconess, cross-dressing saint and martyr who supposedly lived in Palestine in the 4th century. According to her hagiographies , she chose to devote herself entirely to the Christian faith by cross-dressing as a man and joining a male monastery under the name ...
Ferard was a gentlewoman from a prominent Huguenot family. Her father, Daniel Ferard (1788–1839), was a solicitor. [3]Archibald Tait, then Bishop of London and later Archbishop of Canterbury, encouraged Elizabeth Ferard's religious vocation, particularly her visit to deaconess communities in Germany after the death of her invalid mother in 1858.
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