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It had ordained 32 women as its first female priests in March 1994. [145] In 2015 Rachel Treweek was consecrated as the first female diocesan bishop in the Church of England (Diocese of Gloucester). [146] She and Sarah Mullally, Bishop of Crediton, were the first women to be consecrated and ordained bishop in Canterbury Cathedral. [146]
In 2017, German bishop Gebhard Fürst supported the ordination of women to the diaconate. [106] 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. [107] German bishop Georg Bätzing supported women ordination. [108]
The Lutheran Evangelical Protestant Church (GCEPC) has ordained women since its inception in 2000. Ordination of women is not a controversial issue in the LEPC/GCEPC. Women are ordained/consecrated at all levels, including deacon, priest, and bishop in the LEPC/GCEPC. [citation needed]
The Anglican Church of Australia began to ordain women as priests in 1992 and in the late 1990s embarked on a protracted debate over the ordination of women as bishops, a debate that was ultimately decided through the church's appellate tribunal, which ruled on 28 September 2007 that there is nothing in the church's constitution that would ...
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
Despite discussion of women's ordination in the initial listening phases of the snyod process, Tropeano said it was removed from documents preparing for the October conference and appears to be ...
The General Synod of the Church of England voted to allow for the ordination of women as bishops. [212] 2015: Mira Rivera became the first Filipino-American woman to be ordained as a rabbi. [213] Libby Lane became the first woman ordained as a bishop of the Church of England. [214]
A recent Pew Research Poll of US Catholics showed 64% of respondents support ordaining women as priests. Judy Russell: Catholics pray for vocations while women still await ordination Skip to main ...