Ordination of women in Christianity

===Lutheran===
==== Europe ====
* The Lutheran churches within the [[Evangelical Church in Germany]] (EKD) ordain women and have women as bishops.{{citation needed|date=March 2018}}
* The [[Independent Evangelical-Lutheran Church]] in Germany does not ordain women.{{citation needed|date=March 2018}}
* The [[Evangelical Lutheran Church of Latvia]] reversed its earlier (1975) decision to ordain women as pastors. Since 1993 it no longer does so in practice. Since 2016 this principle has been affirmed in its constitution.{{citation needed|date=March 2018}}
* The [[Lutheran]] state churches in the [[Nordic countries]] ordain women as pastors and have women as bishops. The first female pastors were ordained in the [[Church of Denmark]] in 1948, in [[Church of Sweden|Sweden]] in 1960, [[Church of Norway|Norway]] in 1961, in [[Church of Iceland|Iceland]] in 1974 and in [[Evangelical Lutheran Church of Finland|Finland]] in 1988.{{Citation needed|date=August 2016}}
** While the Church of Sweden ordained its first female pastors in 1960, there was a considerable debate in this church of the ordination of women, which led to marginalization of a vocal high-church minority, which successively subdivided into loyalist high-church adherents on one hand and the splinter group [[Missionsprovinsen]] which was formed in 2003 but in 2005 was separated as a church body from the Church of Sweden.{{citation needed|date=March 2018}}
**Although the ordination of women was accepted by the Church of Finland in 1988, controversy over the issue occasionally surfaces among the more conservative wing of the church. Occasional debate on the matter has caused church membership resignations.<ref>[[Eroakirkosta.fi]] – [http://www.eroakirkosta.fi/media/none/tiedote3_07.txt?year=2007 Naispappeuskiista tuplannut kirkosta eroamisen]</ref> 
* The [[Estonian Evangelical Lutheran Church]] (EELC) began to ordain women in 1967 and 2004 all obstacles that forbade women to be consecrated as bishops were removed although none have yet been consecrated.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.eestikirik.ee/5-05-naised-vaimulikus-ametis/|title=5.05 Naised vaimulikus ametis – Eesti Kirik|website=www.eestikirik.ee|access-date=2016-09-18}}</ref>
* The [[Evangelical Church of the Augsburg Confession in Poland]] ordains women as pastors since 2022. 9 pastors are women.
* The [[Evangelical Church of the Augsburg Confession in Slovakia]] ordains women as pastors since 1951 and women can be elected bishops.
* The [[Slovak Evangelical Church of the Augsburg Confession in Serbia]] ordains women as pastors. Out of 20 pastors in Serbia, 6 are women.

==== United States ====
* The [[Evangelical Lutheran Church in America]] (ELCA) is the largest Lutheran body in the US. The church bodies that formed the ELCA in 1988 began ordaining women in 1970 when the [[Lutheran Church in America]] ordained [[Elizabeth Platz]]. In 2017 about 27% of the rostered leaders were women and about 50% of the seminarians preparing for ministry were women.<ref name="elca-facts">{{cite web|title=ELCA Facts|url=https://www.elca.org/News-and-Events/ELCA-Facts|website=ELCA.org|publisher=ELCA|access-date=15 May 2017|language=en|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180920084229/https://www.elca.org/News-and-Events/ELCA-Facts|archive-date=20 September 2018|df=dmy-all}}</ref> In 2013 the first female presiding bishop of the ELCA, [[Elizabeth Eaton]], was elected.<ref>{{cite web|title=Presiding Bishop|url=https://www.elca.org/About/Leadership/Churchwide-Officers/Presiding-Bishop|website=ELCA.org|publisher=ELCA|access-date=15 May 2017|language=en}}</ref> In 2018 16 of the 65 synodical bishops (17 bishops including Presiding Bishop Eaton) in the ELCA were women <ref>{{cite web |title='She is loose': A historic group of female Lutheran bishops on #MeToo and the Holy Spirit |url=https://religionnews.com/2018/07/25/new-elca-female-synod-bishops-talk-metoo-religious-left-what-lutheran-looks-like/ |website=Religion News Service |access-date=29 September 2018|date=25 July 2018 }}</ref>
* The [[General Lutheran Church]] ordains women.{{citation needed|date=March 2018}}
* The [[Lutheran Church–Missouri Synod]] (LCMS), which is the second largest [[Lutheranism|Lutheran]] body in the United States, does not ordain women.<ref>{{cite web|title=Women in the Church: Scriptural Principles and Ecclesial Practice|url=https://files.lcms.org/dl/f/6CE2573A-4E8F-4EC8-A2B0-098BD1747124|website=lcms.org|publisher=LCMS|access-date=6 February 2023|language=en}}</ref>
*The [[Lutheran Congregations in Mission for Christ]] (LCMC) also allows for the ordination of women.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.lcmc.net/becoming-a-pastor|title=Becoming an LCMC Pastor 101 – LCMC|website=www.lcmc.net|access-date=2019-03-10}}</ref>
*The [[North American Lutheran Church]], was founded in 2010 does ordain women.<ref>{{cite web |title=Constitution of the North American Lutheran Church |url=https://www.thenalc.org/wp-content/uploads/Documents/Governance/NALC-Constitution-Ratified-2016-February-15.pdf |access-date=22 January 2019 |page=3.06 |date=15 February 2016}}</ref> The NALC has established ecumenical dialog with a number of Lutheran bodies, both those that ordain women and those that do not.
* The [[Wisconsin Evangelical Lutheran Synod]] does not ordain women.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://wels.net/faq/why-no-women-pastors/|title=Why no women pastors?|website=wels.net|access-date=6 February 2023}}</ref>
* The [[Evangelical Lutheran Synod]] does not ordain women.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://els.org/beliefs/doctrinal-statements/roles-of-men-and-women-in-the-church/|title=Roles of Men and Women in the Church|website=els.org/|access-date=6 February 2023}}</ref>
* The [[Church of the Lutheran Confession]] does not ordain women.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://lutheranmissions.org/the-position-of-women-in-the-church/|title = The Position of Women in the Church}}</ref>
* [[The Lutheran Evangelical Protestant Church]] (GCEPC) has ordained women since its inception in 2000. Ordination of women is not a controversial issue in the LEPC/GCEPC. Women are ordained/consecrated at all levels, including deacon, priest, and bishop in the LEPC/GCEPC.{{citation needed|date=March 2018}}

==== 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 – 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}}