Ordination of women in Christianity

==== 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.