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...

Methodist views on the ordination of women in the rite of holy orders are diverse. Historically, as in other Christian denominations, many Methodist churches...

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...

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

getsulma (Tibetan novice) ordination vows are given. After these, full bhikkhuni ordination may be given. Some Theravadin women may choose to take an informal...

Women rabbis are individual Jewish women who have studied Jewish Law and received rabbinical ordination. Women rabbis are prominent in Progressive Jewish...

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

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...

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...

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...

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

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

tradition WAiB Women Active in Buddhism: Resources on Women's Ordination Sakyadhita: the International Association of Buddhist Women Buddhanet: Women in Buddhism...

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

president, resigned from the Rabbinical Council of America (RCA). The movement's ordination of women is a source of friction within Orthodox Judaism. Weiss's...

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...

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

denominations of Christianity the ordination of women is a relatively recent phenomenon within the life of the Church. As opportunities for women have expanded...

Keener, author of Paul, Women and Wives (1992) Paul King Jewett, author of Man as Male and Female (1975) and The Ordination of Women (1980) Scot McKnight...

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

largest from any Anglican province. The Church of Nigeria does not recognise the ordination of women to the priesthood or the episcopate. In 2010, then...

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...

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

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

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...

On June 25, 1863, Olympia Brown became one of the first women in the United States to receive ordination in a national denomination, Antoinette Brown...