The ordination of women to ministerial or priestly office is an increasingly common practice among some contemporary major religious groups. It remains...

In Christianity, the ordination of women has been taking place in an increasing number of Protestant and Old Catholic churches, starting in the 20th century...

denominational hierarchy composed of other clergy) to perform various religious rites and ceremonies. The process and ceremonies of ordination vary by religion and...

Catholic male validly receives ordination, and "that the Church has no authority whatsoever to confer priestly ordination on women and that this judgment is...

The ordination of women has been commonly practiced in Methodist denominations since the 20th century, and some denominations earlier allowed women to...

novice) ordination vows are given. After these, full bhikkhuni ordination may be given. Theravadan women may choose to take an informal and limited set of vows...

The ordination of women in the Anglican Communion has been increasingly common in certain provinces since the 1970s. Several provinces, however, and certain...

Priests (Ordination of Women) Measure 1993 is a Church of England measure passed by the General Synod of the Church of England enabling the ordination of women...

is a timeline of notable moments in the history of women's ordination in the world's religious traditions. It is not an exhaustive list of all historic...

study with rabbinical ordination. Ordination of women has grown since the 1970s with over 1,200 Jewish women receiving formal ordination (see § Membership...

modern) texts on the role and ordination of women in Buddhism. Bhikkhuni committee of the ASA includes a large resource of articles regarding Bhikkhunis...

Adventist Church prevented the ordination of women. They voted 1,173 against and 377 in favor. Those who supported ordaining women were from Europe and North...

Nigeria continues to prohibit the ordination of women as priests or bishops. The Church of Uganda has ordained women as deacons since 1973 and as priests...

commitments of fidelity and indissolubility." In a 1975 talk Luciani gave to a group of sisters, he expressed his views on the ordination of women into the...

debates over the ordination of women and homosexuality. The British monarch (currently Charles III) is the supreme governor and the Archbishop of Canterbury...

Convention permitted the ordination of women in 1976 and recognized the ordinations of the 15 forerunners. The first women were canonically ordained...

Movement for the Ordination of Women (MOW) was the name used by organisations in England and Australia that campaigned for the ordination of women as deacons...

transmission in the Rinzai school of Buddhism. 1998: After 900 years without such ordinations, Sri Lanka again began to ordain women as fully ordained Buddhist...

Women's Ordination Worldwide (WOW) is an ecumenical network of groups whose primary mission is to allow Roman Catholic women admission to all ordained...

Council of America, and founder of the grassroots organization Coalition for Jewish Concerns – Amcha. Semikhah (rabbinical ordination) of women by Weiss'...

The Church of Scotland was one of the first national churches to accept the ordination of women. In Presbyterianism, ordination is understood to be an...

The ordination of women in the Anglican Diocese of Sydney is restricted to the diaconate (IE as deacons). The diocese rejects the ordination of women as...

Church has been criticized for not practicing ordination of women to the priesthood, its handling of incidents of sexual abuse, and various inter-faith interactions...

traditional orders of bishop, priest and deacon are bestowed using ordination rites contained within ordinals. The extent to which ordination is considered...

Rabbinical Council of America (RCA). The movement's ordination of women, which is not considered halachically permissible, is a source of friction within...

The Movement for the Ordination of Women was an Australian newsletter published by the Movement for the Ordination of Women (Sydney, NSW). The newsletter...

Bonnie Dwyer. See the "Women in Ministry" section of SDANet.org AtIssue. Articles with subject "ordination of women" and "women clergy" cataloged in the...

/complementarianism in marriage or the ordination of women, alongside an affirmation of core "essential" doctrinal standards. The motto of the Evangelical Presbyterian...

affirmed and explicitly authorized the ordination of women to the priesthood. In the Episcopal Church, a member church of the worldwide Anglican Communion,...

of Jesus Christ. Yet, women were the first to discover the Resurrection of Christ. Some Christians believe clerical ordination and the conception of priesthood...