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List of ordained Christian women

List of ordained Christian women

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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. This list includes ordained ministers, bishops and other church leaders who have made an impact on their Christian denomination, or have been recognized as pathbreakers. Due to historical differences deaconesses will not be included. In Presbyterianism, Methodism and a few other denominations the ordination of women predates 1900 and is now common enough to be unremarkable. Therefore, most ordained women clergy in these denominations are not included. Where women are making ground-breaking strides in those denominations, some individuals are included.

African Methodist Episcopal Church

Anglicanism

Baptist

Catholic

Ludmila Javorová - made public in 1995 her claim to have been ordained in 1970 during Communist rule in Czechoslovakia. 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.

Lutheranism

Methodist

Old Catholic

  • Maria Kubin - bishop in Austria[6]

Pentecostal

  • Aimee Semple McPherson - Founder of Foursquare International Church
  • Maria Woodworth-Etter - Ordained Assemblies of God Holiness and Pentecostal Pastor and Evangelist
  • Ida Robinson - Founder of Mt Sinai Holy Church of America
  • Mary Magdalena Lewis Tate - Founder of Church of the Living God
  • Florence L. Crawford - Founder of Apostolic Faith Mission
  • Rosa Horn - Founder of Mt Calvary Pentecostal Church of All Nations
  • Michel Girtman-White (1949-2020) - Founder of The Cathedral at Greater Faith and Former Assistant Presiding Bishop of the Churches of the Living

Presbyterian

United and Uniting churches

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