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The North American Lutheran Church, was founded in 2010 does ordain women. [40] The NALC has established ecumenical dialog with a number of Lutheran bodies, both those that ordain women and those that do not. The Wisconsin Evangelical Lutheran Synod does not ordain women. [41] The Evangelical Lutheran Synod does not ordain women. [42]
Today some Methodist denominations practice the ordination of women, such as in the United Methodist Church (UMC), in which the ordination of women has occurred since its creation in 1968, as well as in the Free Methodist Church (FMC), which ordained its first woman elder in 1911, [149] in the Methodist Church of Great Britain, which ordained ...
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.
One of those non-essentials is women’s ordination, so much so that the subject is part of the denomination’s founding and its current appeal to churches like Koinonia that are leaving the more ...
Other Methodist denominations that practice the ordination of women include the United Methodist Church (UMC), in which the ordination of women as deacons and elders has occurred since its creation in 1968, and its splinter denomination, the Global Methodist Church, since it was established in 2022.
More women are entering seminary and other theological programs in mainstream Christian denominations. Some look at it as an opportunity for activism and a reinvigoration of faith.
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 ...
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