Ordination of women in Christianity Warning: You are not logged in. Your IP address will be publicly visible if you make any edits. If you log in or create an account, your edits will be attributed to your username, along with other benefits.Anti-spam check. Do not fill this in! ==== Africa ==== * The [[Evangelical Lutheran Church in Tanzania]] (ELCT) decided to ordain women in 1990, but does not have any women bishops. Some dioceses are still opposed to the ordination of women.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.elct.org/social.html|title=ELCT|website=www.elct.org}}</ref> * The [[Ethiopian Evangelical Church Mekane Yesus]] (EECMY) began to ordain women in 2000<ref>{{cite web|url=http://archive.wfn.org/2000/06/msg00149.html|author= Frank Imhoff |title=wfn.org β Lutheran pastor becomes Ethiopia's first ordained woman|website=archive.wfn.org|date=19 June 2000|access-date=14 February 2019}}</ref> but does not continue this practice since confessional Lutheranism has become stronger in this church body during recent years.{{citation needed|date=September 2020}} Summary: Please note that all contributions to Christianpedia may be edited, altered, or removed by other contributors. If you do not want your writing to be edited mercilessly, then do not submit it here. You are also promising us that you wrote this yourself, or copied it from a public domain or similar free resource (see Christianpedia:Copyrights for details). Do not submit copyrighted work without permission! Cancel Editing help (opens in new window) Discuss this page