- List of women priests
List of women priests: In many denominations of
Christianity theordination of women is a new phenomenon. This is true enough that those so ordained gain some attention. This list deals with that and will include female Bishops as well, but due to historical differencesdeaconess es will not be included. InPresbyterianism ,Methodism , and a few other denominations the ordination of women predates 1900 and is now common enough to be unremarkable. Hence those denominations are not included.Anglican
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Miriam Byrne -Provost in theScottish Episcopal Church
*Eleanor Clitheroe-Bell -Priest and former businesswoman.
*Barbara Clementine Harris -First female Anglican bishop.
*Penny Jamieson -First woman to head a diocese.
*Li Tim-Oi -First woman Anglican priest
*Molly McGreevey -Former soap opera actress
*Katharine Jefferts Schori -first woman primate of an Anglican ChurchChurch of Scotland
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Mary Levison -First woman minister.Lutheranism *
Elizabeth Platz -First woman ordained in US AmericanLutheranism
*Margot Käßmann - Female Bishop inGermany Lutheranism
*Maria Jepsen - First Female Lutheran Bishop worldwideGermany [http://www.lutheranworld.org/What_We_Do/OCS/LWI-2005-PDF/LWI-200506-EN-low.pdf]
*Bärbel Wartenberg-Potter - Female Bishop inGermany [http://www.nordelbien.de/adressen/de.nekorganisation/de.nekorganisation.10/one.adressen/index.html?entry=page.bi.1122000000]
*Susanne Breit-Keßler - Female Bishop in Germany [http://www.bayern-evangelisch.de/web/ueber_uns_landeskirchenrat_2.php]Baptist
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Regina Claas inGermany [http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bund_Evangelisch-Freikirchlicher_Gemeinden]Methodist
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Rosemarie Wenner - Woman Bishop inGermany [http://www.emk.de/fakten/57_403.htm]Catholic
Ludmila Javorová made public in 1995 her claim to have been ordained in 1970 duringCommunist rule inCzechoslovakia . The ordination of Javorová although attempted by a bishop in communion with thePope was declared to be invalid.Several Catholic groups not in communion with the Pope allow women to be ordained.
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Christine Mayr-Lumetzberger —Excommunicated for unlawful ordination.
*Sinéad O'Connor —Excommunicated for ordination byIndependent Catholic Michael Cox.
*Mary Ramerman —
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