Ordination of women in Christianity

=== Presbyterian, United or Reformed ===

==== Scotland ====
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* The [[Church of Scotland]]
::* Women were commissioned as deacons from 1935, and allowed to preach from 1949.
::* In 1963 Mary Levison petitioned the General Assembly for ordination.
::* Woman elders were introduced in 1966 and women ministers in 1968.
::* The first female Moderator of the General Assembly was Dr Alison Elliot in 2004.
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* The [[United Free Church of Scotland]] has ordained women since 1929 and elected its first female general assembly moderator in 1960.<ref name="Field-Bibb">Jacqueline Field-Bibb, ''Women Towards Priesthood: Ministerial Politics and Feminist Praxis'' (Cambridge University Press, 1991), p. 117.</ref>
* The [[Free Church of Scotland (post-1900)|Free Church of Scotland]] does not ordain women. 
* The [[Free Church of Scotland (Continuing)]] does not ordain women.
* The [[Free Presbyterian Church of Scotland]] based in Scotland, Australia and Zimbabwe does not ordain women. 
* The [[Associated Presbyterian Churches]] based in Scotland does not ordain women.

==== England/Wales ====
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* The [[United Reformed Church]] in [[the United Kingdom]] ordains women.
* The [[International Presbyterian Church]] based in the UK, Europe, and Korea does not ordain women. 
* The [[Evangelical Presbyterian Church in England and Wales]] does not ordain women. 
* The [[Free Church of England]] does not ordain women.
* The [[Presbyterian Church of Wales]] ordains women.

==== Ireland ====
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* The [[Presbyterian Church in Ireland]] does ordain women.
* The [[Non-subscribing Presbyterian Church of Ireland]] ordains women. 
* The [[Free Presbyterian Church of Ulster]] does not ordain women.
* The [[Evangelical Presbyterian Church (Ireland)]] does not ordain women.
* The [[Reformed Presbyterian Church of Ireland]] does not ordain women.

==== Nigeria ====
* The [[Presbyterian Church of Nigeria]] does ordain women. In 1982, [[Mgbeke George Okore]] was ordained as a test case for women in ministry.<ref name="Ajah">{{cite book |last=Ajah |first=Miracle |chapter=The Experience of Women Leaders in the Presbyterian Church of Nigeria |editor-last1=Hyun |editor-first1=KeumJu Jewel |editor-last2=Chemorion |editor-first2=Diphus Chosefu |title=The Quest for Gender Equity in Leadership: Biblical Teachings on Gender Equity and Illustrations of Transformation in Africa |date=2016 |publisher=Wipf and Stock Publishers |page=170 |isbn=978-1-4982-9334-1 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=tkXkDAAAQBAJ |language=en}}</ref>

==== Netherlands ====
* The [[Dutch Reformed Church]] does ordain women except the reformed union.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://gereformeerdebond.nl/actueel/gereformeerde-bond-brengt-brochure-geroepen-vrouw-uit|title=Gereformeerde Bond &#124; Gereformeerde Bond brengt brochure 'Geroepen vrouw' uit}}</ref>
* The [[Reformed Churches in the Netherlands (Liberated)]] does not ordain women.{{citation needed|date=March 2018}}
* The [[Reformed Congregations]] in the Netherlands does not ordain women.{{citation needed|date=March 2018}}

==== Belgium ====
* The [[United Protestant Church in Belgium]] does ordain women.

==== Luxembourg ====
* The [[Protestant Reformed Church of Luxembourg]] does ordain women. 
* The [[Protestant Church of Luxembourg]] does ordain women.

==== France ====
* The [[Reformed Church of France]] ordains women.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.museeprotestant.org/Pages/Notices.php?scatid=147&noticeid=686&lev=2&cim=684&Lget=EN|title=Women pastors from 1900 to 1960 – Musée virtuel du Protestantisme|access-date=14 March 2015}}</ref>
* The [[United Protestant Church of France]] ordains women.

==== Switzerland ====
* The [[Swiss Reformed Church]] does ordain women.

==== Germany ====
* The united and reformed churches within the [[Evangelical Church in Germany]] (EKD) ordain women and have women as bishops.

==== Eastern Europe ====
* The [[Reformed Church in Hungary]] ordains women.{{citation needed|date=March 2018}}
* The [[Polish Reformed Church]] ordains women since 2003.

==== North America ====
* The [[National Presbyterian Church in Mexico]], which is the largest Presbyterian church in all of the Americas with 2.8 million members, does not ordain women. 
* The [[Presbyterian Church (USA)]]. The PC(USA) was formed in 1983 by a merger of the southern [[Presbyterian Church in the United States]] (PCUS) and the northern [[United Presbyterian Church in the United States of America]] (UPCUSA). The PC(USA) has always ordained women. With regards to its predecessor bodies - in 1893, [[Edith Livingston Peake]] was appointed Presbyterian Evangelist by First United Presbyterian of San Francisco.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.pcusa.org/women/ordination/ordination-timeline.htm |title=Women's Ordination Time Line |access-date=2007-03-20}}</ref> Between 1907 and 1920 five more women became ministers.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.pcusa.org/women/ordination/ordination-timeline2.htm |title=Women's Ordination Time Line (page 2)|access-date=2007-03-20}}</ref> The Presbyterian Church (USA) began ordaining women as elders in 1930, and as ministers of Word and sacrament in 1956. By 2001, the numbers of men and women holding office were almost equal.<ref>[http://www.pcusa.org/today/archive/believe/wpb0105.htm What Presbyterians Believe] Holper, J. Frederick, 2001 "What Presbyterians Believe about Ordination," ''Presbyterians Today,'' May 2001, retrieved from on 21 August 2006</ref> The first woman to be ordained in the Presbyterian Church in the United States was Rev. [[Rachel Henderlite]] who was ordained by a predominantly African American congregation in Richmond, Virginia, in 1965.<ref>{{cite web |last1=Hunter |first1=Rashell |title=PCUSA Celebrates 60 Years of Women Clergy |url=https://www.pcusa.org/news/2016/5/24/pcusa-celebrates-60-years-womens-ordination/ |website=PCUSA.org |date=24 May 2016 |publisher=PCUSA.org |access-date=June 8, 2020}}</ref> 
* The [[Presbyterian Church in America]] does not ordain women.<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.byfaithonline.com/partner/Article_Display_Page/0,,PTID323422%7CCHID664022%7CCIID2143300,00.html |title=The Authority of the Word and the Wisdom of the Church - byFaith Online |access-date=22 September 2009 |archive-date=26 October 2007 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071026144054/http://www.byfaithonline.com/partner/Article_Display_Page/0%2C%2CPTID323422%7CCHID664022%7CCIID2143300%2C00.html |url-status=dead }}</ref> In 1997, the PCA even broke its fraternal relationship with the [[Christian Reformed Church in North America|Christian Reformed Church]] over this issue.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.pcanet.org/general/release3.htm|title=PCA: Press Release<!-- Bot generated title -->}}</ref>
* The [[Reformed Church in the United States]] does not ordain women.
* The [[Free Reformed Churches of North America]] ordain men only.{{citation needed|date=March 2018}}
* The [[Cumberland Presbyterian Church]]. In 1888 [[Louisa Woosley]] was licensed to preach. She was ordained in 1889. She wrote Shall Woman Preach.
* The [[Christian Reformed Church in North America]] began ordaining women in 1995.<ref>{{cite web|title=Women in Ecclesiastical Office|url=http://www.crcna.org/welcome/beliefs/position-statements/women-ecclesiastical-office|access-date=14 June 2013|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130726234652/http://www.crcna.org/welcome/beliefs/position-statements/women-ecclesiastical-office|archive-date=26 July 2013|df=dmy-all}}</ref> As a result, several conservative congregations formed the [[United Reformed Churches in North America]], and the CRC's position as a member of the North American Presbyterian and Reformed Council (NAPARC) was suspended in 1997.<ref>{{cite web|title=NAPARC Votes, 6–1, to Suspend the Christian Reformed Church|url= http://www.presbyteriannews.org/volumes/v4/1/n-crc.htm |access-date= 14 June 2013}}</ref> Several individual congregations continue to oppose women's ordination and women are not seated at some Classes (regional assemblies).
* The [[Orthodox Presbyterian Church]] does not ordain women.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://opc.org/whatis.html|title=Orthodox Presbyterian Church|access-date=14 March 2015}}</ref>
* The [[Reformed Church in America]] began allowing for the ordination of women in 1979.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.christianitytoday.com/news/2013/june/reformed-church-of-america-prevents-opposition-to-womens-or.html|title=Reformed Church of America Prevents Opposition to Women's Ordination|last=Stocker|first=Abby|website=News & Reporting|language=en|access-date=2019-11-23}}</ref>
* The [[United Church of Christ]]. [[Antoinette Brown]] was ordained as a minister by a Congregationalist Church in 1853, though this was not recognized by her denomination.<ref name="autogenerated2">{{cite web|url=http://www.religioustolerance.org/femclrg13.htm|title=When churches started to ordain women|access-date=14 March 2015}}</ref> She later became a [[Unitarianism|Unitarian]]. The Christian Connection Church, which later merged with the Congregationalist Churches to form the Congregational Christian Church, ordained women as early as 1810. Women's ordination is now non-controversial in the United Church of Christ.
* The [[Evangelical Covenant Order of Presbyterians]] (ECO) ordains women as both Teaching Elders (pastors) and Ruling Elders.
* The [[Evangelical Presbyterian Church (United States)|Evangelical Presbyterian Church]] (EPC) allows individual congregations to determine whether or not they ordain women.
* The [[Presbyterian Church in Canada]] began ordaining women as elders and as ministers in 1966.<ref>{{cite web |title=Celebrating the 50th Anniversary of the Ordination of Women (1966–2016): The Discussion 1953-1966 |url=https://presbyterianarchives.ca/2016/07/20/the-discussion-1953-1966/ |website=The Presbyterian Church in Canada Archives |access-date=21 February 2023 |language=en-CA |date=20 July 2016}}</ref><ref>{{cite journal |title=Canadian Presbyterians to Ordain Women |journal=Christianity Today |date=8 July 1966 |url=https://www.christianitytoday.com/ct/1966/july-8/canadian-presbyterians-to-ordain-women.html |language=en}}</ref>
* The [[United Church of Canada]] ordains women. The church was divided during the 1930s by this issue inherited from the churches it brought together, the United Church ordained its first woman minister, Reverend [[Lydia Emelie Gruchy]], of Saskatchewan Conference in 1936. In 1953, Reverend Lydia Emelie Gruchy was the first Canadian woman to receive an honorary Doctor of Divinity.<ref>{{cite book |title=Fitzhenry and Whiteside Book of Canadian Facts and Dates  |last=Pound |first=Richard W. |publisher=Fitzhenry and Whiteside |year=2005}}</ref>

==== Australia ====
* The [[Uniting Church in Australia]] has ordained women since it formed in 1977. The three member denominations, the [[Congregational Union of Australia]], the [[Methodist Church of Australasia]] and the [[Presbyterian Church of Australia]] had all ordained women prior to Union. The [[Congregational Union of Australia]] ordained the first woman in Christian ministry in Australia, Rev [[Winifred Kiek]] in 1927. The [[Methodist Church of Australasia]] first ordained women (Rev Margaret Sanders and Rev [[Coralie Ling]]) in 1969, while the [[Presbyterian Church of Australia]] ordained its first woman minister in 1974. After formation of the [[Uniting Church in Australia]], the continuing [[Presbyterian Church of Australia]] reversed the decision to ordain women in 1991.
* The [[Presbyterian Church of Australia]] does not ordain women. As mentioned above some of its congregations left to join the new Uniting Church in 1977, 14 years later in 1991 it ceased ordaining women to the ministry, but the rights of women ordained prior to this time were not affected.<ref>[http://www.presbyterian.org.au/belief.htm Scheme of Union] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100403011159/http://www.presbyterian.org.au/belief.htm |date=3 April 2010 }} of the [[Presbyterian Church of Australia]].</ref>

==== Pakistan ====
* The [[Presbyterian Church of Pakistan]] ordains women.{{citation needed|date=March 2018}}