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In Christianity, the ordination of women has been taking place in an increasing number of Protestant and Old Catholic churches, starting in the 20th century. Since ancient times, certain churches of the Orthodox tradition, such as the Coptic Orthodox Church, have raised women to the office of deaconess. [1]
In contrast to the ordination of women to the Catholic priesthood, the ordination of women to the diaconate is being actively discussed by Catholic scholars, [54] and theologians, as well as senior clergy. The historical evidence points to women serving in ordained roles from its earliest days in both the Western Church as well as the Eastern ...
The Community of Christ adopted the practice of women's ordination in 1984, [190] which was one of the reasons for the schism between the Community of Christ and the newly formed Restoration Branches movement, which was largely composed of members of the Community of Christ church (then known as the RLDS church) who refused to accept this ...
The Southern Baptist Convention adopted a resolution opposing women's ordination in 1984. [84] The Community of Christ (known at the time as the Reorganized Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints) authorized the ordination of women. [7] They are the second largest Latter Day Saint denomination. [7]
The New Testament which deals with this era refers to a number of women in Jesus' inner circle – notably his mother Mary (for whom the Catholic Church holds a special place of veneration) and Mary Magdalene who discovered the empty tomb of Christ. The church says that Christ appointed only male Apostles (from the Greek apostello "to send ...
The "God Says Now" campaign has focused on getting the topic of women's ordination included in the study of the role of women in the church. Despite discussion of women's ordination in the initial ...
Now as the church submits to Christ, so also wives should submit to their husbands in everything. Husbands, love your wives, just as Christ loved the church and gave himself up for her to make her holy," [97]" 3 But I want you to realize that the head of every man is Christ, and the head of the woman is man, and the head of Christ is God.
God ordains that they assume distinctive roles which reflect the loving relationship between Christ and the church, [b] the husband exercising headship in a way that displays the caring, sacrificial love of Christ, and the wife submitting to her husband in a way that models the love of the church for her Lord. [7]