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The ordination of women to ministerial or priestly office is an increasingly common practice ... the Theravada bhikkhuni ordination of German nun Samaneri Dhira ...
The first bhikkhuni ordination in Germany, the Theravada bhikkhuni ordination of German nun Samaneri Dhira, occurred on June 21, 2015, at Anenja Vihara. [215] The first Theravada ordination of bhikkhunis in Indonesia after more than a thousand years occurred at Wisma Kusalayani in Lembang, Bandung. [216]
In 2017, German bishop Gebhard Fürst supported the ordination of women to the diaconate. [101] In October 2019 German bishop Franz-Josef Overbeck said many Catholic people don't understand why women are unable to be deacons or priests, which he thinks should be changed. [102] German bishop Georg Bätzing supported women ordination. [103]
The Seventh-day Adventist Church officially does not ordain women in most of the world, but in regions of the United States, the Netherlands, parts of Germany, and China may occasionally ordain women. These ordinations are considered irregular and are not officially recognized in the church yearbook.
The ordination of Javorová, although officiated by a bishop in communion with the Pope, was declared to be invalid. Several Catholic groups not in communion with the Pope allow women to be ordained. Christine Mayr-Lumetzberger - excommunicated for unlawful ordination; Sinéad O'Connor - excommunicated for ordination by Independent Catholic ...
Official logo of the Synodal Path. The Synodal Way (German: Der Synodale Weg or Synodaler Weg, sometimes translated as Synodal Path) was a series of conferences of the Catholic Church in Germany to discuss a range of contemporary religious, spiritual and theological and organizational questions concerning the Catholic Church, as well as gender issues and possible reactions to the sexual abuse ...
Around this time in Germany, the Hochschule für die Wissenschaft des Judentums, the rabbinic seminary of German Jewry began admitting women to study higher learning without the offer of ordination. The first woman to graduate from the seminary was Ellen Littmann (1909–1975) who later went on to teach biblical studies at Leo Baeck College in ...
The first bhikkhuni ordination in Germany, the Theravada bhikkhuni ordination of German nun Samaneri Dhira, occurred on June 21, 2015 at Anenja Vihara. [488] The first Theravada ordination of bhikkhunis in Indonesia after more than a thousand years occurred at Wisma Kusalayani in Lembang, Bandung. [489]