Ordination of women in Christianity

==== 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.