List of the first women ordained as priests in the Anglican Church of Australia in 1992

For the first time women were ordained as priests in the Anglican Church of Australia in 1992. These women are notable as a group as the ordinations were a historic milestone for the church.[1] The debates in the General Synod and diocesan synods of the church about the proposal to ordain women were reported in church and mainstream press in the years leading up to 1992, as were the ordination services in 1992. The first ordination service in Perth was televised.[2][3] The anniversary of the 1992 ordination of women priests is regularly celebrated in the relevant dioceses and the women's names are often listed in media reports of those ceremonial services.[4][5][2][6][7]

There were 90 women ordained as priests in Australia in 1992. Three women were ordained priests in other countries but were given permission to officiate in Australia in 1992.[8][9][10][11]

The dioceses are listed in chronological order of the dates they ordained the first women as priests. The women are listed alphabetically under the diocese in which they were ordained. The last name is the name they were ordained under. A later married name is in brackets after their last name and a preferred first name is also in brackets after their first name(s).

Perth[edit]

7 March 1992[edit]

  • Arney, Elizabeth Emmaline (Betty)[12]
  • Couche, Elizabeth Mae[13]
  • Goldsworthy, Kay Maree
  • Halbert, Constance Pamela
  • Hall, Jennifer Robin (Jenny)
  • Milne, Teresa Catherine (Tess)
  • Peterkin, Judith Mary
  • Pinner, Catherine Joyce (Cathy)
  • Polson, Joyce Sylvia[14]
  • Tandy, Robin Kathleen Barbara[15]

Adelaide[edit]

5 December 1992[edit]

Rockhampton[edit]

12 December 1992[edit]

  • Blackford, Barbara Frances
  • Lake, Jacqueline (Jackie)
  • Quaife, Lucy Lee[17]
  • Whitehead, Janne Eileen

Melbourne[edit]

13 December 1992, 16 December 1992, 21 December 1992[edit]

  • Alfred, Mary Elizabeth (Elizabeth)[5]
  • Campbell, Frances Adair
  • Chambers (Watson), Susanne Judith
  • Clarke, Alison Lynne (Lynne)
  • Cruickshank, Kim Dawn
  • Darling, Barbara Brinsley
  • Dean (Dennis), Elizabeth Ann
  • Good, Nanette Henrietta Irving
  • Granowski, Helen Barbara
  • Hall, Joanne Margaret
  • Harrison, Ruth Margaret
  • Hartley, Margaret Isabel
  • Heskett, Margaret Anne (Sr Margaret Anne)
  • Hetzel, Anna Jane Killigrew (Ann)
  • Johnson, Janet Mary
  • Letts, Lineve Joy (Joy)
  • Maddock, Willy Ruth[5]
  • Marten, Heather Ruth
  • Nixon, Geraldine Elizabeth
  • Pace, Barbara Jean
  • Payne, Robin Ashley[18]
  • Pearce, Jo-Iris Aline (Jo) Lamphard
  • Pinchbeck, Gail Phyllis
  • Prowd (Urwin), Catherine Jane (Kate)
  • Richards, Elizabeth May
  • Roath, Hilary Ann[19]
  • Rockwell (Dunn), Jennifer Maureen (Jenny)[20]
  • Saunders, Lydia
  • Sherlock, Peta Robin
  • Simondson, Adrienne Louise
  • Sutherland (Inglis), Jennifer Frances (Jenny)
  • Taplin, Clemence Charlotte Faith (Clem)
  • Turner, Amy Inez

Bendigo[edit]

19 December 1992[edit]

Bathurst[edit]

19 December 1992[edit]

  • Percival, Verney Clare (Clare)[22][23]
  • Voerman, Margaret[23]

Canberra and Goulburn[edit]

20 December 1992[edit]

  • Cullen, Helen Victoria (Vicky)[24]
  • Dittmar-McCollim, Ann
  • Dudzinski, Anne Elizabeth
  • Gifford, Elaine Margaret
  • Kelley, Julie Rosamonde
  • May, Daphne Jean
  • Mendham, (Jill) later Varcoe, Gillian Joan
  • Mills (Dudley), Ruth Isabel
  • Phillips, Pamela Jean
  • Streatfield, Margaret Louise
  • Tabor, Barbara Gail

Brisbane[edit]

20 December 1992[edit]

  • Graydon, Christine Valerie (Val)[6][25]
  • King, Patricia Eileen[6]
  • Pascoe, Joan[6][25]
  • Pitman, Kaye[6]
  • Shaw, Leah Mary[6]
  • Thomson, Eileen Grace[6]

Newcastle[edit]

21 December 1992[edit]

  • Armstrong, Maree Lillian[4]
  • Bourne, Sheila Margaret[4]
  • Carr, Margaret Mary[4]
  • Fuller, Audrey Ann[4]
  • Howard, Barbara Janice[4]
  • Pate, Beatrice[4]
  • Perry, Julia Frances Harriet[4]
  • Sauber, Pamela Vera (Pam)[4]
  • Solling, Wendy Hope (Sr Angela)[4]
  • Tibbey, Valerie Joan (Val)[4]
  • Willsher, Jennifer Kay (Jenny)[4]

Tasmania[edit]

21 December 1992[edit]

  • Crawshaw, Patricia Margaret[7]
  • Fraser, Elvie Pearl[7]
  • Gaden, Janet Eade[7]
  • Le Rossignol, Barbara Helen Fawcett[7]
  • Perrott (Perrott-Russell), Rosemary Alexandra[7]
  • Weaver, Rosina[7]
  • Yearsley, Honor Helen[7]

Ordained outside Australia but granted licences or permission to officiate as priest in 1992[edit]

  • Kenyon, Colleen Dawn. Ordained priest in Auckland NZ 1987, licensed as Priest in Perth in January 1992.
  • Leaves (Craig-Leaves), Julie Elizabeth. Ordained priest in Hong Kong 1992, licensed as Priest in Perth and Brisbane from 1992.[notes 1][9]
  • Pearce, Caroline Heath. Ordained priest 1988 Newark US, Licensed as Priest in Melbourne from December 1992.[26][27]

Notes[edit]

  1. ^ Julie Leaves was ordained priest in St John's Cathedral Hong Kong but moved to Perth soon after where she was granted permission to officiate then to Brisbane where she has spent most of her career as a chaplain or priest. She is sometimes counted as a woman priest ordained in Australia in 1992.

See also[edit]

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References[edit]

  1. ^ "Days that changed the face of the Anglican Church". Movement for the Ordination of Women: The national magazine for the Movement for the Ordination of Women Incorporating Ebb and Flow. MOW Sydney: 27–43. 18 April 1994 – via University of Divinity Digitised Collections.
  2. ^ a b c d e f g Henry-Edwards, Sue (2022-02-17). "Celebrating 30 years of women priests in Australia". Guardian. Retrieved 2023-05-22.
  3. ^ The ordination of Anglican women priests : from St George's Cathedral Perth, Australian Broadcasting Corporation Marketing, 1992, retrieved 23 May 2023
  4. ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l Admin (2018-01-07). "25th Anniversary of the Ordination of Women to the Priesthood". Newcastle Anglican. Retrieved 2023-06-02.
  5. ^ a b c Karajic, Julian (2022-12-03). "Thirty years on, the church is richer for women's ordination". The Melbourne Anglican. Retrieved 2023-06-05.
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  7. ^ a b c d e f g h Celebrating 30 Years of the Ordination of Women to the Priesthood in the Anglican Church of Tasmania, retrieved 2023-06-05
  8. ^ Anglican Media. & Angela Grutzner & Associates. 1995, The Australian Anglican directory
  9. ^ a b Anglican Media and Angela Grutzner & Associates. The Australian Anglican directory, 2015
  10. ^ The Anglican Church of Australia, 2021, Directory / Anglican Church of Australia
  11. ^ "Women Ordained Priest in 1992 & the Diocese in which they were ordained" list in conference program, 2022 MOW, Unfinished Business – 30th Anniversary Conference | MOWATCH Movement for the Ordination of Women in the Anglican Church". mowatch.com.au. Retrieved 2023-06-02.
  12. ^ "ARNEY, Elizabethy E. - 1932 | Women's Museum of Australia". wmoa.com.au. Retrieved 2023-06-08.
  13. ^ "COUCHE, Elizabeth Mae | Women's Museum of Australia". wmoa.com.au. Retrieved 2023-06-05.
  14. ^ "POLSON, Joyce | Women's Museum of Australia". wmoa.com.au. Retrieved 2023-06-08.
  15. ^ Pierce, Sue (May 1992). "Australian women ordained" (PDF). Witness. 75 (5): 8–9.
  16. ^ a b c d e Cathedral, St Peter's. "St Peter's Cathedral // The 30th Anniversary of the Ordination of Women in the Anglican Diocese of Adelaide". St Peter's Cathedral, Adelaide. Retrieved 2023-06-05.
  17. ^ "Women ordained". Canberra Times. 1992-12-13. Retrieved 2023-06-05.
  18. ^ Payne, Robin Ashley (1994). Jeremiah: A Prophet of Surprises. Acorn Press. ISBN 978-0-908284-18-4.
  19. ^ "Newspaper clippings, Reverend Hilary Roath, St. Paul's Anglican Church, Ringwood - 1993, 1993". Victorian Collections. Retrieved 2023-06-05.
  20. ^ "First woman vicar of Geelong". SEE (Now the Melbourne Anglican). 1993.
  21. ^ "Bendigo celebrates 30 years of women ordained as priests – Anglican Diocese of Bendigo". www.bendigoanglican.org.au. Retrieved 2023-06-24.
  22. ^ Reilly, Colin (2021). "Sydney ordained female clergy: Report on women ordained deacon in Sydney, who left Sydney and were priested / consecrated elsewhere". University of Divinity, Australian Women in Religion Archive, Ordination of Women (MOW).
  23. ^ a b "NSW gets its first women priests". Canberra Times. 1992-12-20. Retrieved 2023-06-05.
  24. ^ "Dawn of delight as ordination draws closer". Canberra Times. 1992-11-23. Retrieved 2023-06-02.
  25. ^ a b "Parishes for women priests". Canberra Times. 1992-12-18. Retrieved 2023-06-05.
  26. ^ "CAROLINE PEARCE | MOWATCH Movement for the Ordination of Women in the Anglican Church". mowatch.com.au. Retrieved 2023-06-05.
  27. ^ "Death in our diocesan family: The Rev. Caroline Heath Pearce | The Episcopal Diocese of Newark". dioceseofnewark.org. Retrieved 2023-06-05.
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