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Timeline of women's ordination, the Glossary

This is a timeline of notable moments in the history of women's ordination in the world's religious traditions.^[1]

270 relations: Abbe Lyons, Abraham Geiger College, Academy for Jewish Religion (New York), Addie Elizabeth Davis, African Methodist Episcopal Church, African Methodist Episcopal women preachers, Agudath Israel of America, Alina Treiger, Alison Cheek, Alliance World Fellowship, Alma Bridwell White, Alysa Stanton, American Lutheran Church, Amy Eilberg, Angela Buchdahl, Angela Palacious, Anglican Church in Japan, Anglican Church of Bermuda, Anglican Church of South America, Anglican Church of Tanzania, Anglican Diocese of Bathurst, Anglican Diocese of Cape Coast, Anglican Diocese of Perth, Anglican Diocese of Tabora, Anglican Group for the Ordination of Women to the Historic Ministry, Anglicanism, Ann Allebach, Anna Howard Shaw, Annalu Waller, Anne Zernike, Antje Deusel, Antoinette Brown Blackwell, Archbishop, Association of Catholic Priests, Auður Eir Vilhjálmsdóttir, Australian Broadcasting Corporation, Austria, Ayya Sudhamma Bhikkhuni, Élisabeth Schmidt, Ballarat, Baptist Union of Scotland, Barbara Andrews (bishop), Barbara Ostfeld, Becky L. Savage, Betty Bone Schiess, Bhante Vimalaramsi, Bhikkhunī, Bhutan, Bola Odeleke, Brethren Church, ... Expand index (220 more) »
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Abbe Lyons

Abbe Lyons was one of the first three American women to be ordained as cantors in the Jewish Renewal, along with Susan Wehle and Michal Rubin.

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Abraham Geiger College

Abraham Geiger College is a rabbinic seminary at the University of Potsdam in Potsdam, Germany, founded in 1999 and named after Abraham Geiger, a rabbi and scholar.

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Academy for Jewish Religion (New York)

The Academy for Jewish Religion (AJR) is a rabbinical school based in Yonkers, New York, founded on a pluralistic approach to Judaism.

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Addie Elizabeth Davis

Addie Elizabeth Davis (29 June 1917 – 3 December 2005) was an American Southern Baptist religious leader.

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African Methodist Episcopal Church

The African Methodist Episcopal Church, usually called the AME Church or AME, is a Methodist denomination based in the United States.

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African Methodist Episcopal women preachers

While Female preachers within the African Methodist Episcopal (AME) Church have existed since its founding, their formal ordination within the Church has been relatively recent.

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Agudath Israel of America

Agudath Israel of America (אגודת ישראל באמריקה) (also called the Agudah) is an American organization that represents Haredi Orthodox Jews.

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Alina Treiger

Alina Treiger (born March 8, 1979, Poltava, Ukraine) is the first female rabbi to be ordained in Germany since World War II.

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Alison Cheek

Alison Mary Cheek (April 11, 1927 – September 1, 2019) was an Australian-born American religious leader.

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The Alliance World Fellowship (or The Alliance, also C&MA and CMA) is an evangelical Christian denomination within the Higher Life movement of Christianity, teaching a modified form of Keswickian theology.

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Alma Bridwell White

Alma Bridwell White (June 16, 1862 – June 26, 1946) was the founder and a bishop of the Pillar of Fire Church.

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Alysa Stanton

Alysa Stanton (born August 2, 1963) is an American Reform rabbi, and the first African American female rabbi.

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American Lutheran Church

The American Lutheran Church (ALC) was a Christian Protestant denomination in the United States and Canada that existed from 1960 to 1987.

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Amy Eilberg

Amy Eilberg (born October 12, 1954) is the first female rabbi ordained in Conservative Judaism.

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Angela Buchdahl

Angela Buchdahl (Warnick; 앤절라 워닉 북달; born July 8, 1972) is an American reform rabbi.

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Angela Palacious

Angela Palacious (born 1953 in Nassau, Bahamas) is a Bahamian minister of religion and author.

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Anglican Church in Japan

The Nippon Sei Ko Kai (lit), abbreviated as NSKK, sometimes referred to in English as the Anglican Episcopal Church in Japan, is the national Christian church representing the Province of Japan (日本管区) within the Anglican Communion.

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Anglican Church of Bermuda

The Anglican Church of Bermuda (as the Church of England in the British Overseas Territory of Bermuda was retitled in 1978) is a single diocese consisting of nine parishes and is part of the Anglican Communion, though not a part of an ecclesiastical province.

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Anglican Church of South America

The Anglican Church of South America (Iglesia Anglicana de Sudamérica) is the ecclesiastical province of the Anglican Communion that covers six dioceses in the countries of Argentina, Bolivia, Paraguay, Peru, and Uruguay.

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Anglican Church of Tanzania

The Anglican Church of Tanzania (ACT; Kanisa la Anglikana la Tanzania) is a province of the Anglican Communion based in Dodoma.

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Anglican Diocese of Bathurst

The Anglican Diocese of Bathurst is located in the Province of New South Wales.

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Anglican Diocese of Cape Coast

The Anglican Diocese of Cape Coast is a diocese of the Church of the Province of West Africa, a member church of the worldwide Anglican Communion.

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Anglican Diocese of Perth

The Anglican Diocese of Perth is one of the 23 dioceses of the Anglican Church of Australia.

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Anglican Diocese of Tabora

The Diocese of Tabora is a central diocese in the Anglican Church of Tanzania: its current bishop is the Rt Revd Elias Chakupewa.

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Anglican Group for the Ordination of Women to the Historic Ministry

The Anglican Group for the Ordination of Women to the Historic Ministry of the Church existed from 1930 to 1978.

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Anglicanism

Anglicanism is a Western Christian tradition which developed from the practices, liturgy, and identity of the Church of England following the English Reformation, in the context of the Protestant Reformation in Europe.

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Ann Allebach

Ann Jemima Allebach (May 8, 1874 – April 27, 1918) was an American minister, educator and suffragette.

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Anna Howard Shaw

Anna Howard Shaw (February 14, 1847 – July 2, 1919) was a leader of the women's suffrage movement in the United States.

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Annalu Waller

Annalu Waller is Professor of Computer Science at the University of Dundee and leads the Augmentative and Alternate Communication (AAC) Research Group at the university.

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Anne Zernike

Anne Zernike (1887–1972) was a Dutch, liberal theologian, who was the first ordained woman minister of the Netherlands.

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Antje Deusel

Antje Deusel (born 1960 in Nuremberg) is the first German-born woman to be ordained as a rabbi in Germany since the Nazi era.

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Antoinette Brown Blackwell

Antoinette Louisa Brown, later Antoinette Brown Blackwell (May 20, 1825 – November 5, 1921), was the first woman to be ordained as a mainstream Protestant minister in the United States.

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Archbishop

In Christian denominations, an archbishop is a bishop of higher rank or office.

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Association of Catholic Priests

The Association of Catholic Priests (ACP) is an independent and voluntary association of Catholic clergy in Ireland.

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Auður Eir Vilhjálmsdóttir

Auður Eir Vilhjálmsdóttir (born 21 April 1937) is an Icelandic Protestant cleric.

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Australian Broadcasting Corporation

The Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC), is the national broadcaster of Australia.

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Austria

Austria, formally the Republic of Austria, is a landlocked country in Central Europe, lying in the Eastern Alps.

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Ayya Sudhamma Bhikkhuni

Ayya Sudhamma Bhikkhuni (born in 1963 in Charlotte, North Carolina) is abbess of Charlotte Buddhist Vihara.

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Élisabeth Schmidt

Élisabeth Schmidt (1908–1986) was a French protestant pastor.

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Ballarat

Ballarat (balla arat) is a city in the Central Highlands of Victoria, Australia.

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Baptist Union of Scotland

The Baptist Union of Scotland is a Baptist Christian denomination in Scotland.

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Barbara Andrews (bishop)

Barbara Andrews is a retired Anglican Suffragan Bishop in the Anglican Church of Canada: she was responsible for the Anglican Parishes of the Central Interior and reported to the Metropolitan of British Columbia and Yukon.

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Barbara Ostfeld

Barbara Jean Ostfeld, formerly known as Barbara Ostfeld-Horowitz, is the first ordained female cantor in Jewish history, and an American feminist, mental health advocate, and author.

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Becky L. Savage

Becky Lee Savage is an American leader in Community of Christ.

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Betty Bone Schiess

Betty Bone Schiess (April 2, 1923 – October 20, 2017) was an American Episcopal priest.

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Bhante Vimalaramsi

Bhante Vimalaraṁsi (𑀯𑀺𑀫𑀮𑀭𑀁𑀲𑀺; August 7, 1946 – June 27, 2023) was an American Buddhist monk and Abbot of the Dhamma Sukha Meditation Center in Annapolis, Missouri.

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Bhikkhunī

A bhikkhunī (𑀪𑀺𑀓𑁆𑀔𑀼𑀦𑀻) or bhikṣuṇī (भिक्षुणी) is a Buddhist nun, fully ordained female in Buddhist monasticism.

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Bhutan

Bhutan (Dzongkha: འབྲུག་རྒྱལ་ཁབ), officially the Kingdom of Bhutan, is a landlocked country in South Asia situated in the Eastern Himalayas between China in the north and India in the south.

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Bola Odeleke

Bola Odeleke (born 1950) is a Nigerian pastor, evangelist, preacher, founder and general overseer of Power Pentecostal Church.

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Brethren Church

The Brethren Church is an Anabaptist Christian denomination with roots in and one of several groups that trace its origins back to the Schwarzenau Brethren of Germany, and is a member of the National Association of Evangelicals.

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Canon law of the Catholic Church

The canon law of the Catholic Church is "how the Church organizes and governs herself".

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Carter Heyward

Isabel Carter Heyward (born 1945) is an American feminist theologian and priest in the Episcopal Church, the province of the worldwide Anglican Communion in the United States.

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Catholic Church

The Catholic Church, also known as the Roman Catholic Church, is the largest Christian church, with 1.28 to 1.39 billion baptized Catholics worldwide as of 2024.

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Chava Koster

Chava Koster, the granddaughter of Dutch Holocaust survivors, was the first woman from the Netherlands to be ordained as a rabbi.

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Chicago Sun-Times

The Chicago Sun-Times is a daily nonprofit newspaper published in Chicago, Illinois, United States.

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Christian denomination

A Christian denomination is a distinct religious body within Christianity that comprises all church congregations of the same kind, identifiable by traits such as a name, particular history, organization, leadership, theological doctrine, worship style and, sometimes, a founder.

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Christianity

Christianity is an Abrahamic monotheistic religion based on the life and teachings of Jesus Christ.

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Christine Mayr-Lumetzberger

Christine Mayr-Lumetzberger (born 1956) is a teacher and former Benedictine nun who was excommunicated from the Roman Catholic Church when she and six others were ordained as priests by an Independent Catholic bishop in 2002.

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Church in Wales

The Church in Wales (Yr Eglwys yng Nghymru) is an Anglican church in Wales, composed of six dioceses.

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Church of England

The Church of England (C of E) is the established Christian church in England and the Crown Dependencies.

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Church of Ireland

The Church of Ireland (Eaglais na hÉireann,; Kirk o Airlann) is a Christian church in Ireland, and an autonomous province of the Anglican Communion.

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Church of Norway

The Church of Norway (Den norske kirke, Den norske kyrkja, Norgga girku, Nöörjen gærhkoe) is an evangelical Lutheran denomination of Protestant Christianity and by far the largest Christian church in Norway.

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Church of Scotland

The Church of Scotland (The Kirk o Scotland; Eaglais na h-Alba) is a Presbyterian denomination of Christianity that holds the status of the national church in Scotland.

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Church of South India

The Church of South India (CSI) is a united Protestant Church in India.

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Church of Sweden

The Church of Sweden (Svenska kyrkan) is an Evangelical Lutheran national church in Sweden.

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Church of the Brethren

The Church of the Brethren is an Anabaptist Christian denomination in the Schwarzenau Brethren tradition (Schwarzenauer Neutäufer "Schwarzenau New Baptists") that was organized in 1708 by Alexander Mack in Schwarzenau, Germany during the Radical Pietist revival.

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Church of the Nazarene

The Church of the Nazarene is a Christian denomination that emerged in North America from the 19th-century Wesleyan-Holiness movement within Methodism.

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Church of the Redeemer, Jerusalem

The Lutheran Church of the Redeemer (כנסיית הגואל, الكنيسة اللوثرية في القدس, Erlöserkirche) is the second Protestant church in Jerusalem (the first being Christ Church near Jaffa Gate).

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Clarissa Danforth

Clarissa Danforth (1792–1855) was the first woman ordained as a Free Will Baptist minister.

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Community of Christ, known from 1872 to 2001 as the Reorganized Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints (RLDS), is an American-based international church, and is the second-largest denomination in the Latter Day Saint movement.

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Confessing Church

The Confessing Church (Bekennende Kirche) was a movement within German Protestantism in Nazi Germany that arose in opposition to government-sponsored efforts to unify all of the Protestant churches into a single pro-Nazi German Evangelical Church.

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Congregational Union of Australia

The Congregational Union of Australia was a Congregational denomination in Australia that stemmed from the Congregational Church in England as settlers migrated from there to Australia.

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Conservative Judaism

Conservative Judaism, also known as Masorti Judaism (translit), is a Jewish religious movement that regards the authority of Jewish law and tradition as emanating primarily from the assent of the people through the generations, more than from divine revelation.

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Constance Coltman

Constance Mary Coltman (née Todd; 23 May 188926 March 1969) was one of the first women ordained to Christian ministry in Britain.

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Curaçao

Curaçao (or, or, Papiamentu), officially the Country of Curaçao (Land Curaçao; Papiamentu: Pais Kòrsou), is a Lesser Antilles island in the southern Caribbean Sea, specifically the Dutch Caribbean region, about north of Venezuela.

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Czechoslovak Hussite Church

The Czechoslovak Hussite Church (Církev československá husitská, CČSH or CČH; Cirkev československá husitská) is a Christian church that separated from the Catholic Church after World War I in former Czechoslovakia.

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Dagmar Braun Celeste

Dagmar Ingrid Braun Celeste (née Braun; born November 23, 1941) is an American counselor, and author.

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Danube

The Danube (see also other names) is the second-longest river in Europe, after the Volga in Russia.

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Danube Seven

The Danube Seven are a group of seven women from Germany, Austria and the United States who were ordained as priests on a ship cruising the Danube river on 29 June 2002 by Rómulo Antonio Braschi, Ferdinand Regelsberger, and a third unknown bishop.

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Democratic Republic of the Congo

The Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), also known as the DR Congo, Congo-Kinshasa, Congo-Zaire, or simply either Congo or the Congo, is a country in Central Africa.

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Dhammananda Bhikkhuni

Dhammananda Bhikkhuni (ธัมมนันทา), born Chatsumarn Kabilsingh (ฉัตรสุมาลย์ กบิลสิงห์) or Chatsumarn Kabilsingh Shatsena (ฉัตรสุมาลย์ กบิลสิงห์ ษัฏเสน; 6 October 1944), is a Thai bhikkhuni ("Buddhist nun").

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Dina Brawer

Dina Brawer (born Dina Elmaleh) is an Orthodox woman rabbi and the founder of the Jewish Orthodox Feminist Alliance division in the United Kingdom (JOFA UK).

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Diocese of the Bahamas and the Turks and Caicos Islands

The Anglican Diocese of the Bahamas and the Turks and Caicos Islands was originally established in 1861 as the Diocese of Nassau.

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Drikung Kagyu

Drikung Kagyü or Drigung Kagyü (Wylie: 'bri-gung bka'-brgyud) is one of the eight "minor" lineages of the Kagyu school of Tibetan Buddhism.

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Dutch Reformed Church

The Dutch Reformed Church (abbreviated NHK) was the largest Christian denomination in the Netherlands from the onset of the Protestant Reformation in the 16th century until 1930.

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Eastern Orthodox Church

The Eastern Orthodox Church, officially the Orthodox Catholic Church, and also called the Greek Orthodox Church or simply the Orthodox Church, is the second-largest Christian church, with approximately 230 million baptised members.

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Ecumenical Catholic Communion

The Ecumenical Catholic Communion (ECC) is an Independent Catholic church based within the United States.

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Einat Ramon

Einat Ramon (born 1959) was the first Israeli-born woman to be ordained as a rabbi.

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Elaine Lindsay

Elaine Stuart Lindsay (born 1948) is an Australian academic whose work has focussed on literature and feminist theology.

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Elisabeth Djurle

Elisabeth Marianne Djurle Olander (10 October 1930 – 11 February 2014) was a Swedish Lutheran priest, later a dean.

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Elise Pfister

Elise Pfister (1886–1944) was a Swiss theologian and cleric.

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Elizabeth Ferard

Elizabeth Catherine Ferard (22 February 1825 – 18 April 1883) was a deaconess credited with revitalising the deaconess order in the Anglican Communion.

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Ellen G. White

Ellen Gould White (née Harmon; November 26, 1827 – July 16, 1915) was an American author and co-founder of the Seventh-day Adventist Church.

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Emily C. Hewitt

Emily Clark Hewitt (born May 26, 1944) is an American lawyer and minister who served as a former judge and the chief judge of the United States Court of Federal Claims.

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Emma Richards (minister)

Emma Elizabeth Richards (née Sommers; March 17, 1927 – September 6, 2014) was the first Mennonite woman to be ordained as a pastor of a Mennonite congregation.

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Emma Slade

Emma Slade, also known as Ani Pema Deki (born 16 July 1966), is a British yoga and meditation instructor, author, and charity founder best known for becoming the first Western woman to become a Buddhist nun in Bhutan.

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Episcopal Church (United States)

The Episcopal Church, officially the Protestant Episcopal Church in the United States of America (PECUSA), is a member church of the worldwide Anglican Communion based in the United States with additional dioceses elsewhere.

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Erica Lippitz

Erica Jan (Riki) Lippitz and Marla Rosenfeld Barugel were the first two female hazzans (also called cantors) ordained in Conservative Judaism.

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Evangelical Church of the Augsburg Confession in Poland

The Evangelical Church of the Augsburg Confession in the Republic of Poland (Kościół Ewangelicko-Augsburski w Rzeczypospolitej Polskiej) is a Lutheran denomination and the largest Protestant body in Poland with about 61,000 members and 133 parishes.

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Evangelical Covenant Church

The Evangelical Covenant Church (ECC) is a Radical Pietistic denomination of evangelical Christianity.

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Evangelical Lutheran Church in America

The Evangelical Lutheran Church in America (ELCA) is a mainline Protestant Lutheran church headquartered in Chicago, Illinois.

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Evangelical Lutheran Church in Jordan and the Holy Land

The Evangelical Lutheran Church in Jordan and the Holy Land (ELCJHL) is a Lutheran denomination that has congregations in Jordan and State of Palestine.

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Evangelical Lutheran Church in Thailand

The Evangelical Lutheran Church in Thailand is a Lutheran denomination located in Thailand.

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Evangelical Lutheran Church in the Kingdom of the Netherlands

The Evangelical Lutheran Church in the Kingdom of the Netherlands (Evangelisch-Lutherse Kerk in het Koninkrijk der Nederlanden) was a denomination in the Netherlands which under that name existed from 1818 to 2004.

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Evangelical Lutheran Church of Latvia

The Evangelical Lutheran Church of Latvia (Latvijas Evaņģēliski luteriskā baznīca, or LELB) is a Lutheran Protestant church in Latvia.

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Evangelical Presbyterian Church (United States)

The Evangelical Presbyterian Church (EPC) is an American church body holding to presbyterian governance and Reformed theology.

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Eveline Goodman-Thau

Eveline Goodman-Thau (born 1934) was the first female rabbi in Austria, a job she began in 2001.

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Excommunication

Excommunication is an institutional act of religious censure used to deprive, suspend, or limit membership in a religious community or to restrict certain rights within it, in particular those of being in communion with other members of the congregation, and of receiving the sacraments.

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Felix Gmür

Felix Gmür (born 7 June 1966) is a Swiss Roman Catholic bishop.

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Felix Maria Davídek

Felix Maria Davídek (12 January 1921 – 18 August 1988) was a bishop of the Roman Catholic Church.

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The First Presidency of Community of Christ, formerly the Reorganized Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints, is the church's highest-ranking priesthood quorum.

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Florence Li Tim-Oi

Florence Li Tim-Oi (5 May 1907 in Hong Kong – 26 February 1992 in Toronto) was the first woman to be ordained to the priesthood in the Anglican Communion, on 25 January 1944.

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Freda Bedi

Freda Bedi (born Freda Marie Houlston; 5 February 1911 – 26 March 1977), also known as Sister Palmo or Gelongma Karma Kechog Palmo, was an English-Indian social worker, writer, Indian nationalist and Buddhist nun.

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Freda Smith (clergy)

Mary Alfreda Smith is an American political and LGBT activist, working in the areas of women's and minority rights.

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Free Will Baptist

Free Will Baptists or Free Baptists are a group of General Baptist denominations of Christianity that teach free grace, free salvation and free will.

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General Synod of the Church of England

The General Synod is the tricameral deliberative and legislative organ of the Church of England.

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Germany

Germany, officially the Federal Republic of Germany (FRG), is a country in Central Europe.

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Gisela Forster

Gisela Forster (born 27 March 1946 in Munich) is a German writer, teacher, and Catholic theologian.

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Greek Orthodox Patriarchate of Alexandria

The Greek Orthodox Patriarchate of Alexandria and all Africa (The Patriarchate of Alexandria and all Africa), also known as the Greek Orthodox Church of Alexandria, is an autocephalous patriarchate that is part of the Eastern Orthodox Church.

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Grisell Baillie

Lady Grisell Baillie (4 April 1822 – 20 December 1891) was the first woman to be created a deaconess in the Church of Scotland.

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Halakha

Halakha (translit), also transliterated as halacha, halakhah, and halocho, is the collective body of Jewish religious laws that are derived from the Written and Oral Torah.

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Hazzan

A hazzan (lit. Hazan) or chazzan (translit, plural; translit; translit) is a Jewish musician or precentor trained in the vocal arts who leads the congregation in songful prayer.

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Hebrew Union College – Jewish Institute of Religion

The Hebrew Union College – Jewish Institute of Religion (also known as HUC, HUC-JIR, and The College-Institute) is a Jewish seminary with three locations in the United States and one location in Jerusalem.

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Helenor M. Davisson

Helenor Alter Draper Davisson was an ordained minister in the Methodist church in Indiana.

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Helga Newmark

Helga Newmark, née Helga Hoflich, (1932–2012) was the first female Holocaust survivor ordained as a rabbi.

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Henepola Gunaratana

Bhante Henepola Gunaratana is a Sri Lankan Theravada Buddhist monk.

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HistoryLink

HistoryLink is an online encyclopedia of Washington state history.

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Holy Land

The Holy Land is an area roughly located between the Mediterranean Sea and the eastern bank of the Jordan River, traditionally synonymous both with the biblical Land of Israel and with the region of Palestine.

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Ida Raming

Ida Raming (born 10 August 1932 in Fürstenau, Germany) is a German author, teacher and theologian.

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Ilse Härter

Ilse Härter (12 January 1912 - 28 December 2012) was a centenarian German Lutheran theologian.

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Independent Catholicism

Independent Catholicism is an independent sacramental movement of clergy and laity who self-identify as Catholic (most often as Old Catholic or as Independent Catholic) and form "micro-churches claiming apostolic succession and valid sacraments", in spite of not being affiliated to the historic Catholic church, the Roman Catholic church.

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India Today

India Today is a weekly Indian English-language news magazine published by Living Media India Limited.

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Ingrid Bjerkås

Ingrid Bjerkås (8 May 1901 – 30 November 1980) was a Norwegian theologian and the first female minister in the Church of Norway.

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Ingrid Hanna Margareta Persson (1912–2000) was a Swedish priest.

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International Institute for Secular Humanistic Judaism

The International Institute for Secular Humanistic Judaism (IISHJ) is the academic and intellectual center of Humanistic Judaism.

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Isabella Freedman Jewish Retreat Center

Isabella Freedman Jewish Retreat Center is a project of Hazon that sits on 400 acres of forest and meadows in the foothills of the southern Berkshires in Litchfield County, Connecticut.

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ISBN

The International Standard Book Number (ISBN) is a numeric commercial book identifier that is intended to be unique.

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Jackie Tabick

Jacqueline Hazel "Jackie" Tabick (née Acker; born 1948) is a British Reform rabbi.

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Jacqueline Mates-Muchin

Jacqueline Mates-Muchin, a San Francisco native, is the first Chinese-American rabbi in the world.

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Jacqueline Means

Jacqueline Allene Means is an American Anglican priest.

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Janet Scarfe

Janet Scarfe (born 1947) is an Australian academic and historian who was very involved with the Movement for the Ordination of Women (MOW) in Australia.

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Jōdo Shinshū

, also known as Shin Buddhism or True Pure Land Buddhism, is a school of Pure Land Buddhism founded by the former Tendai Japanese monk Shinran.

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Jeannette Piccard

Jeannette Ridlon Piccard (January 5, 1895 – May 17, 1981) was an American high-altitude balloonist, and in later life an Episcopal priest.

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Jerusalem

Jerusalem is a city in the Southern Levant, on a plateau in the Judaean Mountains between the Mediterranean and the Dead Sea.

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Jewish Theological Seminary of America

The Jewish Theological Seminary (JTS) is a Conservative Jewish education organization in New York City, New York.

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Joyce Bennett (priest)

Joyce Mary Bennett (22 April 1923 – 11 July 2015) was the first Englishwoman to be ordained a priest in the Anglican Communion in 1971.

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Julia A. J. Foote (born May 21, 1823 in Schenectady, New York; November 1901) was ordained as the first woman deacon in the African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church and the second to be ordained as an elder.

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Karen Soria

Karen Soria is an American-born rabbi.

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Karuna Dharma

Karuna Dharma (Thích Nữ Ân Từ; April 21, 1940—February 22, 2014) was an American Buddhist scholar and nun.

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Kathleen Margaret Brown

Kathleen Margaret Brown was the first woman in the Church of Ireland to be ordained to full-time ministry.

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Katie Cannon

Katie Geneva Cannon (January 3, 1950 – August 8, 2018) was an American Christian theologian and ethicist associated with womanist theology and black theology.

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Kay Goldsworthy

Kay Maree Goldsworthy (born 1956) is an Australian bishop of the Anglican Church of Australia.

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Khenmo Drolma

Khenmo Drolma is the Buddhist abbot of the Vajra Dakini Nunnery, the first Westerner installed as abbot of the Drikung Kagyu lineage of Buddhism.

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Knut Helle

Knut Helle (19 December 1930 – 27 June 2015) was a Norwegian historian.

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L. Fidelia Woolley Gillette

Reverend Lucia Fidelia Woolley Gillette (April 8, 1827 – October 14, 1905) was among the first women ordained Universalist minister in the United States and the first woman ordained of any denomination in Canada.

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Latin Americans

Latin Americans (Latinoamericanos; Latino-americanos) are the citizens of Latin American countries (or people with cultural, ancestral or national origins in Latin America).

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Latter Day Saint movement

The Latter Day Saint movement (also called the LDS movement, LDS restorationist movement, or Smith–Rigdon movement) is the collection of independent church groups that trace their origins to a Christian Restorationist movement founded by Joseph Smith in the late 1820s.

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Latvian Evangelical Lutheran Church in America

The Latvian Evangelical Lutheran Church in America (Latviešu evangeliski luteriska Baznica Amerika; LELBA) is a Lutheran denomination, formed in 1957 as a federation, and reorganized in 1975 as a formal denomination.

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Lauren Tuchman

Lauren Tuchman (born 1986) is the first blind woman ordained as a rabbi.

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Lia Bass

Lia Bass is a Brazilian-born American rabbi and the first Latin American female rabbi in the world.

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Libby Lane

Elizabeth Jane Holden Lane (born 8 December 1966) is a British Anglican bishop and Lord Spiritual.

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Lila Kagedan

Lila Kagedan (years old) is a Canadian-born Jewish rabbi who in 2016 became the first woman with the title rabbi to be hired by an Open Orthodox synagogue.

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List of female Anglican bishops

The following is a list of female Anglican bishops in diocesan, suffragan, area, and assistant roles.

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List of ordained Christian women

In many denominations of Christianity the ordination of women is a relatively recent phenomenon within the life of the Church.

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List of the first 32 women ordained as Church of England priests

On 12 March 1994, the first 32 women were ordained as Church of England priests.

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List of the first women ordained as priests in the Anglican Church of Australia in 1992

For the first time women were ordained as priests in the Anglican Church of Australia in 1992.

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List of women bishops in the Anglican Church of Australia

In September 2007 a majority of the Appellate Tribunal of the Anglican Church of Australia decided nothing in the church's constitution prevented a diocese from consecrating women priests as bishops.

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Louisa Woosley

Louisa Mariah Layman Woosley (March 24, 1862 - June 30, 1952) was the first woman ordained as a minister in any Presbyterian denomination.

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Ludmila Javorová

Ludmila Javorová (born 31 January 1932 in Brno) is a Czech Roman Catholic woman who worked in the underground church during the time of communist rule in Czechoslovakia and served as a vicar general of a clandestine bishop.

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Lutheran Church in America

The Lutheran Church in America (LCA) was an American and Canadian Lutheran church body that existed from 1962 to 1987.

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Lynn Gottlieb

Lynn Gottlieb (born April 12, 1949, in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania) is an American rabbi in the Jewish Renewal movement.

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Mahapajapati Gotami

Mahāpajāpatī Gotamī (Mahāprajāpatī Gautamī) or Pajapati was the foster-mother, step-mother and maternal aunt (mother's sister) of the Buddha.

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Maren Sørensen

Maren Sørensen (1882–1957) is considered to be the first female Danish priest.

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Margaret Towner

Margaret Ellen Towner (born March 19, 1925) is an American religious leader who was the first woman to be ordained a minister of the Presbyterian Church in the United States of America (PCUSA).

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Margit Sahlin

Margit Rigmor Sahlin (1914–2003) was a pioneering Swedish Lutheran priest.

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Maria Izabela Wiłucka-Kowalska

Antonina Maria Izabela Wiłucka-Kowalska was a Polish religious leader, who served as the first archpriestess of the Catholic Mariavite Church.

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Mariavite Church

The Old Catholic Mariavite Church refers to one of two independent Christian churches, both of which can be dated from 1906 but which became distinct after 1935 as a result of doctrinal differences, and are collectively known as Mariavites.

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Marion Macfarlane

Marion Macfarlane (19 July 1840 – 29 April 1898) was the first woman to be ordained in the Anglican Church in Australia.

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Marita Munro

Marita Munro (born 1955) is an Australian minister and academic who was the first Baptist woman to be ordained in Australia.

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Marla Rosenfeld Barugel

Marla Rosenfeld Barugel (born 1956) is, along with Erica Lippitz, one of the first two female hazzans (also called cantors) ordained in Conservative Judaism.

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Mary Matz

Mary Matz (August 10, 1931 – July 31, 2013) was a Pennsylvania theologian who became the first woman ordained by the Moravian Church in North America.

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Maude Royden

Agnes Maude Royden (23 November 1876 – 30 July 1956), later known as Maude Royden-Shaw, was an English preacher, suffragist and campaigner for the ordination of women.

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Mennonites in the Netherlands

The Mennonite Church in the Netherlands, or Algemene Doopsgezinde Sociëteit, is a body of Mennonite Christians in the Netherlands.

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Metropolitan bishop

In Christian churches with episcopal polity, the rank of metropolitan bishop, or simply metropolitan (alternative obsolete form: metropolite), pertains to the diocesan bishop or archbishop of a metropolis.

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Midreshet Lindenbaum

Midreshet Lindenbaum, originally named Michlelet Bruria, is a midrasha in Talpiot, Jerusalem.

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Mindy Jacobsen

Mindy Jacobsen (born Miami, Florida) is the first blind woman to be ordained as a hazzan (also called a cantor) in the history of Judaism; she was ordained in 1978 by Hebrew Union College.

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Naamah Kelman

Naamah Kelman-Ezrachi (first name also spelled in English as Naama; born January 25, 1955) is an American-born Reform rabbi who was named as Dean of the Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion campus in Jerusalem starting in July 2009.

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National Catholic Register

The National Catholic Register is a Catholic newspaper in the United States.

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NewspaperArchive

NewspaperArchive is a commercial online database of digitized newspapers, and claims to be the world's largest newspaper archive.

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Norsk biografisk leksikon

Norsk biografisk leksikon is the largest Norwegian biographical encyclopedia.

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OCLC

OCLC, Inc., doing business as OCLC, See also: is an American nonprofit cooperative organization "that provides shared technology services, original research, and community programs for its membership and the library community at large".

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Old Catholic Church

The terms Old Catholic Church, Old Catholics, Old-Catholic churches, or Old Catholic movement, designate "any of the groups of Western Christians who believe themselves to maintain in complete loyalty the doctrine and traditions of the undivided church but who separated from the see of Rome after the First Vatican council of 1869–70".

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Old Catholic Church of the Netherlands

The Old Catholic Church of the Netherlands (Oud-Katholieke Kerk van Nederland), sometimes Jansenist Church of Holland, is an Old Catholic jurisdiction originating from the Archdiocese of Utrecht (695–1580).

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Olive Winchester

Olive May Winchester (1879–1947) was an American ordained minister and a pioneer biblical scholar and theologian in the Church of the Nazarene, who was in 1912 the first woman ordained by any trinitarian Christian denomination in the United Kingdom,.

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Olympia Brown

Olympia Brown (January 5, 1835 – October 23, 1926) was an American minister and suffragist.

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Open Orthodoxy

Open Orthodox Judaism is a Jewish religious movement with increased emphasis on intellectual openness and a more expansive role for women.

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Pauline Bebe

Pauline Bebe is the rabbi of Communauté Juive Libérale, a Progressive Jewish congregation in Paris.

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Pema Chödrön

Pema Chödrön (པདྨ་ཆོས་སྒྲོན། padma chos sgron “lotus dharma lamp”; born Deirdre Blomfield-Brown, July 14, 1936) is an American-born Tibetan Buddhist.

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Penny Jamieson

Penelope Ann Bansall Jamieson (née Allen; born 21 June 1942) is a retired Anglican bishop.

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Philadelphia Eleven

The Philadelphia Eleven are eleven women who were the first women ordained as priests in the Episcopal Church on July 29, 1974, two years before General Convention affirmed and explicitly authorized the ordination of women to the priesthood.

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Pillar of Fire International

The Pillar of Fire International, also known as the Pillar of Fire Church, is a Methodist Christian denomination with headquarters in Zarephath, New Jersey.

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Posek

In Jewish law, a posek (פוסק, pl. poskim) is a legal scholar who determines the application of halakha, the Jewish religious laws derived from the written and Oral Torah, in cases of Jewish law where previous authorities are inconclusive, or in those situations where no clear halakhic precedent exists.

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Presbyterian Church (USA)

The Presbyterian Church (USA), abbreviated PCUSA, is a mainline Protestant denomination in the United States.

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Presbyterian Church in the United States

The Presbyterian Church in the United States (PCUS, originally Presbyterian Church in the Confederate States of America) was a Protestant denomination in the Southern and border states of the United States that existed from 1861 to 1983.

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Presbyterian Church in the United States of America

The Presbyterian Church in the United States of America (PCUSA) was a Presbyterian denomination existing from 1789 to 1958.

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Presbyterian Church of Australia

The Presbyterian Church of Australia (PCA), founded in 1901, is the largest Presbyterian denomination in Australia.

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PressReader

PressReader is a digital newspaper distribution and technology company with headquarters in Vancouver, Canada and offices in Dublin, Ireland and Manila, Philippines.

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Rabbinical Council of America

The Rabbinical Council of America (RCA) is one of the world's largest organizations of Orthodox rabbis; it is affiliated with The Union of Orthodox Jewish Congregations of America, more commonly known as the Orthodox Union (OU).

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Rachel Henderlite

Rachel Henderlite (December 30, 1905 – November 6, 1991) was an American religious leader who was the first woman to be ordained a pastor of the Presbyterian Church in the United States (PCUS), which later merged with the United Presbyterian Church in the United States of America (1983) to become the Presbyterian Church U.S.A.

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Rómulo Antonio Braschi

Rómulo Antonio Braschi (born December 25, 1941) is an Argentine independent Catholic bishop, not in communion with the Catholic Church.

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Rebecca Dubowe

Rebecca Dubowe is the first deaf woman to be ordained as a rabbi in the United States.

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Reconstructionist Judaism

Reconstructionist Judaism is a Jewish movement based on the concepts developed by Rabbi Mordecai Kaplan (1881–1983) that views Judaism as a progressively evolving civilization rather than just a religion.

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Regina Jonas

Regina Jonas (German: Regine Jonas;As documented by Landesarchiv Berlin; Berlin, Deutschland; Personenstandsregister Geburtsregister; Laufendenummer 892 which reads: "In front of the signed registrar appeared today... Wolff Jonas... and... Sara Jonas née Hess... on the 3rd day of August in the year 1902...

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Remnant Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints

The Remnant Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints, usually referred to as the Remnant Church, is a denomination in the Latter Day Saint movement.

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Remonstrants

The Remonstrants (or the Remonstrant Brotherhood) is a Protestant movement that split from the Dutch Reformed Church in the early 17th century.

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Repentance

Repentance is reviewing one's actions and feeling contrition or regret for past wrongs, which is accompanied by commitment to and actual actions that show and prove a change for the better.

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Restoration branches

Restoration Branches movement is a Christian/Latter Day Saint religious sect which was formed in the 1980s by members of the Reorganized Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints (RLDS, now the Community of Christ) in a reaction against the events of the RLDS 1984 world conference.

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Restoration Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints

The Restoration Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints is a denomination of the Latter Day Saint movement headquartered in Independence, Missouri.

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Roman Catholic Womenpriests

Roman Catholic Womenpriests (RCWP) is an independent international organization that claims a connection to the Roman Catholic Church.

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Rosa Gutknecht

Laura Elisabeth Rosa Gutknecht (1885–1959) was a German-born Swiss theologian and cleric.

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Rosemarie Köhn

Rosemarie Köhn (20 October 1939 – 30 October 2022) was a bishop of the Church of Norway, holding that position in the Diocese of Hamar from 20 May 1993 to 1 November 2006.

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Sakyadhita International Association of Buddhist Women

Sakyadhītā International Association of Buddhist Women is a 501(c)3 nonprofit organization founded in 1987 at the conclusion of its first conference and registered in California in the United States in 1988.

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Sally Azar

Sally Azar (سالي عازر) is a Palestinian pastor.

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Sally Priesand

Sally Jane Priesand (born June 27, 1946) is America's first female rabbi ordained by a rabbinical seminary, and the second formally ordained female rabbi in Jewish history, after Regina Jonas.

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Samanera

A sāmaṇera (Pali), श्रामणेर, is a novice male monk in a Buddhist context.

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Sandra Kviat

Sandra Kviat became the first female rabbi from Denmark in 2011; she was ordained in England at Leo Baeck College.

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Sandy Eisenberg Sasso

Sandy Eisenberg Sasso (born January 29, 1947) is the first woman to have been ordained a rabbi in Reconstructionist Judaism.

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Sara Hurwitz

Sara Hurwitz is an Orthodox Jewish spiritual leader aligned with the "Open Orthodox" faction of Modern Orthodox Judaism in the United States.

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Sarah E. Dickson

Sarah Ellen Dickson (August 31, 1880 – November 21, 1965) was the first woman elder in the Presbyterian Church in 1930.

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Seventh-day Adventist Church

The Seventh-day Adventist Church (SDA) is an Adventist Protestant Christian denomination which is distinguished by its observance of Saturday, the seventh day of the week in the Christian (Gregorian) and the Hebrew calendar, as the Sabbath, its emphasis on the imminent Second Coming (advent) of Jesus Christ, and its annihilationist soteriology.

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Sharon Hordes

Sharon Hordes was ordained as Reconstructionist Judaism's first cantor in 2002.

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Shelby, North Carolina

Shelby is a city in and the county seat of Cleveland County, North Carolina.

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Shlomo Riskin

Shlomo Riskin (born May 28, 1940) is an Orthodox rabbi, and the founding rabbi of Lincoln Square Synagogue on the Upper West Side of New York City, which he led for 20 years; founding chief rabbi of the Israeli settlement of Efrat in the Israeli-occupied West Bank; former dean of Manhattan Day School in New York City; and founder and Chancellor of the Ohr Torah Stone Institutions, a network of high schools, colleges, and graduate Programs in the United States and Israel.

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Sivan Malkin Maas

Sivan Malkin Maas is an Israeli cleric who was the first Israeli to be ordained as a rabbi in Humanistic Judaism.

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Southern Baptist Convention

The Southern Baptist Convention (SBC), alternatively the Great Commission Baptists (GCB), is a Baptist Christian denomination based in the United States.

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Spectrum (magazine)

Spectrum is the official publication of Adventist Forum and a non-official publication of the Seventh-day Adventist Church, published four times a year.

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Sri Lanka

Sri Lanka, historically known as Ceylon, and officially the Democratic Socialist Republic of Sri Lanka, is an island country in South Asia.

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St George's Cathedral, Perth

St George's Cathedral is the principal Anglican church in the city of Perth, Western Australia, and the mother-church of the Anglican Diocese of Perth.

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St. Joan's International Alliance

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Susan Wehle

Susan Wehle (May 14, 1953 – February 12, 2009) was ordained the first American female Jewish Renewal cantor (hazzan) in 2006.

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Tacoma, Washington

Tacoma is the county seat of Pierce County, Washington, United States.

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Tamara Kolton

Tamara Ruth Kolton (Feldstein;; born March 13, 1970) is an American non-denominational rabbi and clinical psychologist.

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Tamil Evangelical Lutheran Church

The Tamil Evangelical Lutheran Church is a Christian denomination in south India, which was established in 1919 and has approximately 200,000 members.

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Tannoz Bahremand Foruzanfar

Tannoz Bahremand Foruzanfar became the first Persian woman to be ordained as a cantor in the United States in 2009.

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Taylor & Francis

Taylor & Francis Group is an international company originating in England that publishes books and academic journals.

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The Lutheran Evangelical Protestant Church

The Evangelical Protestant Church (GCEPC) or The Lutheran Evangelical Protestant Church (LEPC) is a mainline Protestant denomination under the General Conference of Evangelical Protestant Churches headquartered in Cayce-West Columbia, South Carolina, United States.

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The New York Times

The New York Times (NYT) is an American daily newspaper based in New York City.

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The Salvation Army

The Salvation Army (TSA) is a Protestant Christian church and an international charitable organization headquartered in London, England.

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Theravada

Theravāda ('School of the Elders') is the most commonly accepted name of Buddhism's oldest existing school.

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Tibetan Buddhism

Tibetan Buddhism is a form of Buddhism practiced in Tibet, Bhutan and Mongolia.

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Time (magazine)

Time (stylized in all caps as TIME) is an American news magazine based in New York City.

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Timeline of women in religion

This is a timeline of women in religion. Timeline of women's ordination and timeline of women in religion are timelines of women in history and women and religion.

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Timeline of women rabbis

This is a timeline of women rabbis. Timeline of women's ordination and timeline of women rabbis are timelines of women in history.

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Trinity

The Christian doctrine of the Trinity (from 'threefold') is the central doctrine concerning the nature of God in most Christian churches, which defines one God existing in three,, consubstantial divine persons: God the Father, God the Son (Jesus Christ) and God the Holy Spirit, three distinct persons (hypostases) sharing one essence/substance/nature (homoousion).

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Unitarian Universalism

Unitarian Universalism (otherwise referred to as UUism or UU) is a liberal religious movement characterized by a "free and responsible search for truth and meaning".

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Unitarian Universalist Association

Unitarian Universalist Association (UUA) is a liberal religious association of Unitarian Universalist congregations.

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United Arab Emirates

The United Arab Emirates (UAE), or simply the Emirates, is a country in West Asia, in the Middle East.

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United Kingdom

The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, commonly known as the United Kingdom (UK) or Britain, is a country in Northwestern Europe, off the coast of the continental mainland.

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United Presbyterian Church in the United States of America

The United Presbyterian Church in the United States of America (UPCUSA) was the largest branch of Presbyterianism in the United States from May 28, 1958, to 1983.

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United States

The United States of America (USA or U.S.A.), commonly known as the United States (US or U.S.) or America, is a country primarily located in North America.

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Uniting Church in Australia

The Uniting Church in Australia (UCA) was founded on 22 June 1977, when most congregations of the Methodist Church of Australasia, about two-thirds of the Presbyterian Church of Australia and almost all the churches of the Congregational Union of Australia united under the Basis of Union.

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University of Southern Mississippi

The University of Southern Mississippi (Southern Miss or USM) is a public research university with its main campus located in Hattiesburg, Mississippi.

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Valerie Stessin

Valerie Stessin is the first woman to be ordained as a Conservative rabbi in Israel, as well as the first woman to be ordained by the Schechter Institute of Jewish Studies; she was ordained in 1993.

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Varanggana Vanavichayen

Varanggana Vanavichayen is the first Bhikkhuni ordained in Thailand.

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Vashti Murphy McKenzie

Vashti Murphy McKenzie (born May 28, 1947) is the President and General Secretary of the National Council of Churches of Christ in the USA.

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Voramai Kabilsingh

Voramai Kabilsingh (วรมัย กบิลสิงห์), also known by her monastic name Ta Tao Fa Tzu (was born Lamai Kabilsingh (ลมัย กบิลสิงห์;; 6 April 1908; died 23 June 2003), was the first modern Thai bhikkhuni. She founded Songdhammakalyani Monastery, the first modern monastery in Thailand for bhikkhuni and was the mother of Dhammananda Bhikkhuni, the current abbess of Songdhammakalyani Monastery.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timeline_of_women's_ordination

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