Ordination of women in Christianity

==== 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>