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...

United States of America, ordain women to the three traditional holy orders of bishop, priest and deacon. Other provinces ordain women as deacons and priests...

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

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

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

lawyer, and Mormon feminist who founded Ordain Women, an organization advocating for the ordination of women to the priesthood in the Church of Jesus...

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...

of Churches has always ordained women to the presbyterate and diaconate. Some smaller Methodist denominations do not ordain women, such as the Southern...

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...

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...

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...

to ordain women. On July 29, 2012, the Columbia Union Conference, which has its headquarters in Maryland voted 80 percent in favor of ordaining women. On...

taken the position that ordination of women is contrary to the Bible, but they have insisted that no one ordain women until it is acceptable to all parts...

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...

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

that he would willingly serve in a pastorate with ordained women on the staff. Though he had been ordained by the Pittsburgh Presbytery, in 1975 the Permanent...

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...

special Catholic-Lutheran dialogue. 119 of the 145 member churches (80%) ordain women as ministers. The LWF was founded at Lund, Sweden, in 1947. Based in...

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

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...

of the first bishops of the Canadian Church to ordain women to the priesthood (women had been ordained as deacons previously). In 2002, the diocese became...

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...

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...

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

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...

supporter of Anglican consecration of women as bishops. In November 2013, Welby stated he aimed to ordain women as bishops while allowing space for those...

denominations in the Netherlands. They were among the first churches to ordain women. On 1 May 2004, the Lutheran Church's membership was down to a mere 14...

during each year of study from year one onwards. All Reform seminaries ordain women and openly LGBT people as rabbis and cantors. See List of rabbinical...