Episcopal Church

Episcopal Church

Episcopalians began ordaining women in the 1970s, but some dioceses did not do so for years. In the mid-1990s, impatient with the slowness of a few hold-outs to change, the convention approved a law that no diocese could refuse to ordain a candidate for the priesthood on the basis of gender.

source: http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/chronicle/archive/2000/07/14/MN64725.DTL
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U.S. Episcopalians elect a woman to head the more than 2-million-member denomination. Katharine Jefferts Schori is the first female bishop to head the national churches in the worldwide Anglican Communion.

Source: http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=5494821
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