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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 ...
In 1917 the Church of England licensed women as lay readers called bishop's messengers, many of whom ran churches, but did not go as far as to ordain them. From 1930 to 1978 the Anglican Group for the Ordination of Women to the Historic Ministry promoted the ordination of women in the Church of England. [141]
The Priests (Ordination of Women) Measure 1993 is a Church of England measure passed by the General Synod of the Church of England enabling the ordination of women in the Church of England. [1] Both Queen's Consent and Prince's Consent were required to pass the Measure. [2]
She is the first woman to be elected as a bishop in the Church of Ireland and the first woman to be an Anglican Communion bishop in Ireland and Great Britain. [22] [23] [24] The Church of England's General Synod voted in 2014 to allow women to be ordained to the episcopate, with Libby Lane being the first woman to be ordained bishop.
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.
"A Woman at the Table - A Personal Reflection on Ten Years of Women as Priests". Ministry Today (29). Archived from the original on 7 October 2011. Jan Fortune-Wood (2008). Stale Bread and Miracles: A Collection of micro fiction stories on the selection to the diaconate work as a woman priest. ISBN 1-905614-98-5.
Women and the Church (WATCH) is a group of women and men who have been campaigning for gender equality (and especially for the ordination of women as bishops) in the Church of England. The group was initially created during the 1990s as London WATCH in order to ensure the acceptance of female priests in the Church of England.
In 2010, for the first time in the history of the Church of England, more women than men were ordained as priests (290 women and 273 men), [87] but in the next two years, ordinations of men again exceeded those of women. [88] In July 2005, the synod voted to "set in train" the process of allowing the consecration of women as bishops.