Ordain Women information

Ordain Women is a Mormon feminist organization that supports the ordination of women to the priesthood in the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints...

ordination was traditionally reserved for men. In some cases, women have been permitted to be ordained, but not to hold higher positions, such as (until July...

Protestant denominations began re-evaluating the roles of women in their churches. Many now ordain women.[citation needed] According to the biblical book of...

Germany (EKD) ordain women and have women as bishops.[citation needed] The Independent Evangelical-Lutheran Church in Germany does not ordain women.[citation...

certain dioceses within otherwise ordaining provinces, continue to ordain only men. Disputes over the ordination of women have contributed to the establishment...

Methodist Church only started to ordain women again in 1974. Today, some Methodist denominations practice the ordination of women, such as in the United Methodist...

reiterates a strong 'no' to women priests". Catholic News Agency. Retrieved 2022-09-04. Zagano, Phyllis. "Ordain Catholic Women as Deacons". Harvard Divinity...

churches that ordain women. Protestants constitute about 27 percent of Christians worldwide, and most of their churches that do ordain women have only done...

impaired communion with ACNA dioceses which ordain women: Most ACNA bishops and dioceses are opposed to women priests, but as it presently stands, the ACNA...

32 women were ordained as Church of England priests. The service was officiated by Bishop Barry Rogerson at Bristol Cathedral. Rogerson ordained the...

accepted. Early efforts to ordain women date to the late nineteenth and early twentieth century. A small cohort of women are recorded as being candidates...

of Utrecht. This was done in protest of the older Union's decision to ordain women and bless same-sex marriages. The Nordic Catholic Church later joined...

started to ordain women. The Guatemalan Presbyterian Synod started to ordain women. The Old Catholic Church in the Netherlands started to ordain women. On July...

allowed women to serve as ministers since the early 19th century. 1815: Clarissa Danforth was ordained in New England. She was the first woman ordained by...

during each year of study from year one onwards. All Reform seminaries ordain women and LGBTQ people as rabbis and cantors. The seminary of Reform Judaism...

planned to ordain women to the diaconate, but not as priests or bishops. In 2010, the church moved forward with those plans and began to ordain women as deacons...

New York, which was the first Orthodox yeshiva in North America to ordain women. The word Maharat (Hebrew: מהר״ת) is a Hebrew acronym for phrase manhiga...

1978, the LDS Church did not ordain men or boys who were of black African descent. The LDS Church does not ordain women to any of its priesthood offices...

Communion ordain both women and men as deacons. Many of those provinces that ordain women to the priesthood previously allowed them to be ordained only to...

has been criticized for its doctrines on sexuality, its inability to ordain women, and its handling of sexual abuse cases. Pope Pius X (1903–1914) renewed...

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...

theological and historical arguments for the Catholic Church's inability to ordain women as priests or bishops. Its title is taken from the opening words of the...

province that originally was Danish. 119 of the 145 member churches (80%) ordain women as ministers. The LWF was founded at Lund, Sweden, in 1947. Based in...

2016. In the fall, the Agudath Israel of America denounced moves to ordain women, and declared Yeshivat Maharat, Yeshivat Chovevei Torah, Open Orthodoxy...