In many denominations of

Christianity Christianity is an Abrahamic monotheistic religion based on the life and teachings of Jesus of Nazareth. It is the world's largest and most widespread religion with roughly 2.38 billion followers representing one-third of the global pop ...

the

ordination of women The ordination of women to ministerial or priestly office is an increasingly common practice among some contemporary major religious groups. It remains a controversial issue in certain Christian traditions and most denominations in which "ordina ...

is a relatively recent phenomenon within the life of the Church. As opportunities for women have expanded in the last 50 years, those ordained women who broke new ground or took on roles not traditionally held by women in the Church have been and continue to be considered notable. This list includes ordained ministers, bishops and other church leaders who have made an impact on their Christian denomination, or have been recognized as pathbreakers. Due to historical differences deaconesses will not be included. In

Presbyterianism Presbyterianism is a part of the Reformed tradition within Protestantism that broke from the Roman Catholic Church in Scotland by John Knox, who was a priest at St. Giles Cathedral (Church of Scotland). Presbyterian churches derive their nam ...

Methodism Methodism, also called the Methodist movement, is a group of historically related denominations of Protestant Christianity whose origins, doctrine and practice derive from the life and teachings of John Wesley. George Whitefield and John's br ...

and a few other denominations the ordination of women predates 1900 and is now common enough to be unremarkable. Therefore, most ordained women clergy in these denominations are not included. Where women are making ground-breaking strides in those denominations, some individuals are included.

African Methodist Episcopal Church

* Carrie T. Hooper - first woman to run for election as bishop in AME Church *

Vashti Murphy McKenzie Vashti Murphy McKenzie (born May 28, 1947) is the interim president and general secretary of the National Council of Churches of Christ in the USA. She's also a retired bishop of the African Methodist Episcopal Church, and author of six books. In ...

- first woman elected bishop in the

African Methodist Episcopal Church The African Methodist Episcopal Church, usually called the AME Church or AME, is a Black church, predominantly African American Methodist Religious denomination, denomination. It adheres to Wesleyan-Arminian theology and has a connexionalism, c ...

Anglicanism

Nerva Cot Aguilera Nerva Cot Aguilera (1938/1939 – July 10, 2010) was a Cubans, Cuban Anglican bishop. From 2007 to 2010, she was a suffragan bishop of the Episcopal Church of Cuba. Upon her consecration, she became the first female Anglican bishop in a developing ...

- first woman bishop in the Episcopal Church of Cuba, and within the Anglican communion in all of Latin America, and first woman bishop in the Caribbean *

Joyce M. Bennett Joyce Mary Bennett (; 22 April 1923 – 11 July 2015) was the first Englishwoman to be ordained a priest in the Anglican Communion in 1971. Biography Bennett was born in London. She was educated at Burlington school, Westminster, which was eva ...

- first English woman to be ordained a priest in the Anglican Communion *

Miriam Byrne Miriam Alexandra Frances Byrne is a priest of the Scottish Episcopal Church (SEC). A former Roman Catholic nun, she was ordained in 1994 and was Priest in charge of St Augustine, Dumbarton before becoming the Provost of St Paul’s Cathedral, D ...

- provost in the

Scottish Episcopal Church The Scottish Episcopal Church ( gd, Eaglais Easbaigeach na h-Alba; sco, Scots Episcopal(ian) Kirk) is the ecclesiastical province of the Anglican Communion in Scotland. A continuation of the Church of Scotland as intended by King James VI, and ...

* Eleanor Clitheroe-Bell - priest and former businesswoman *

Barbara Clementine Harris Barbara Clementine Harris (June 12, 1930 – March 13, 2020) was an American bishop of the Episcopal Church in the United States. She was the first woman consecrated a bishop in the Anglican Communion. She was elected suffragan bishop of the Epi ...

- first woman consecrated as bishop in the Episcopal Church USA, and in the Anglican communion *

Griselda Delgado Del Carpio Griselda is a feminine given name from Germanic sources that is now used in English, Italian, and Spanish as well. According to the 1990 United States Census, the name was 1066th in popularity among females in the United States. It has been su ...

- first woman to become a diocesan bishop in the Episcopal Church of Cuba *

Kay Goldsworthy Kay Maree Goldsworthy (born 1956) is an Australian bishop of the Anglican Church of Australia. She is the current archbishop of Perth in the Province of Western Australia.ABC Online Upon her installation as archbishop, on 10 February 2018, she ...

- installed as Archbishop of Perth in 2018, first woman Archbishop in the Anglican Church of Australia *

Jane Hwang Jane may refer to: * Jane (given name), a feminine given name * Jane (surname), related to the given name Film and television * ''Jane'' (1915 film), a silent comedy film directed by Frank Lloyd * ''Jane'' (2016 film), a South Korean drama fil ...

- along with

, first regularly ordained Anglican priests in Hong Kong *

Penny Jamieson Penelope Ann Bansall Jamieson (née Allen; born 21 June 1942) is a retired Anglican bishop. She was the seventh Bishop of Dunedin in the Anglican Church of New Zealand from 1989 until her retirement in 2004. Jamieson was the second woman in the ...

- first woman to become a bishop in the

Anglican Church in Aotearoa, New Zealand and Polynesia The Anglican Church in Aotearoa, New Zealand and Polynesia ( mi, Te Hāhi Mihinare ki Aotearoa ki Niu Tīreni, ki Ngā Moutere o te Moana Nui a Kiwa; formerly the Church of the Province of New Zealand) is a province of the Anglican Communion serv ...

; first woman to become a diocesan bishop in the

Anglican Communion The Anglican Communion is the third largest Christian communion after the Roman Catholic and Eastern Orthodox churches. Founded in 1867 in London, the communion has more than 85 million members within the Church of England and other ...

. * Florence Li Tim-Oi - first woman ordained as an Anglican priest * Molly McGreevy - former soap opera actress, ordained priest in the Episcopal Church * Katharine Jefferts Schori - first woman to become primate of an Anglican church *

Libby Lane Elizabeth Jane Holden Lane (born 8 December 1966) is a British Anglican bishop and Lord Spiritual. Since February 2019, she has served as Bishop of Derby in the Church of England, the diocesan bishop of the Diocese of Derby. From January 2015 t ...

- first woman to become a bishop in the

Church of England The Church of England (C of E) is the established Christian church in England and the mother church of the international Anglican Communion. It traces its history to the Christian church recorded as existing in the Roman province of Britain ...

* Rachel Treweek - first woman to become a diocesan bishop in the Church of England *Dame

Sarah Mullally Dame Sarah Elisabeth Mullally, (''née'' Bowser; born 26 March 1962) is a British Anglican bishop, Lord Spiritual and former nurse. She has been Bishop of London since 8 March 2018.

- suffragan bishop in the Church of England * Victoria Matthews - first woman to become a bishop in the

Anglican Church of Canada The Anglican Church of Canada (ACC or ACoC) is the Ecclesiastical province#Anglican Communion, province of the Anglican Communion in Canada. The official French-language name is ''l'Église anglicane du Canada''. In 2017, the Anglican Church co ...

; first woman to become a diocesan bishop; first woman to be translated from one diocese (

Toronto Toronto ( ; or ) is the capital city of the Canadian province of Ontario. With a recorded population of 2,794,356 in 2021, it is the most populous city in Canada and the fourth most populous city in North America. The city is the ancho ...

) to another (

Christchurch Christchurch ( ; mi, Ōtautahi) is the largest city in the South Island of New Zealand and the seat of the Canterbury Region. Christchurch lies on the South Island's east coast, just north of Banks Peninsula on Pegasus Bay. The Avon River / ...

, New Zealand) * Pat Storey - first woman to become a diocesan bishop in the

Church of Ireland The Church of Ireland ( ga, Eaglais na hÉireann, ; sco, label= Ulster-Scots, Kirk o Airlann, ) is a Christian church in Ireland and an autonomous province of the Anglican Communion. It is organised on an all-Ireland basis and is the second ...

Ellinah Wamukoya Ellinah Ntombi Wamukoya (1951 – 19 January 2021) was a Swazi Anglican bishop. In 2012, she was elected as the diocesan bishop of the Anglican Diocese of Swaziland and she kept this position until her death in 2021. She was the first woman to ...

- first woman to become a diocesan bishop in the

Anglican Church of Southern Africa The Anglican Church of Southern Africa, known until 2006 as the Church of the Province of Southern Africa, is the province (Anglican), province of the Anglican Communion in the southern part of Africa. The church has twenty-five dioceses, of whi ...

Sarah Macneil Sarah Macneil (born 1955) is a retired Anglican bishop in Australia. She was the Bishop of Grafton in the Anglican Church of Australia. She was consecrated and installed as bishop on 1 March 2014, becoming the first woman in Australia to lead a d ...

- first woman to become a diocesan bishop in the Anglican Church of Australia *

Pushpa Lalitha Eggoni Pushpa Lalitha (born 1956) is the Bishop of the Nandyal Diocese of the Church of South India. She is the first woman to become a bishop in Church of South India. The Church of South India, part of the Anglican Communion, created his ...

- first woman to become a diocesan bishop in the

Church of South India The Church of South India (CSI) is a united Protestant Church in India. It is the result of union of a number of mainline Protestant denominations in South India after independence. The Church of South India is the successor of a number of Pr ...

June Osborne June Osborne (born 10 June 1953) is a British retired Anglican bishop. From 2017 to 2022, she served as the Bishop of Llandaff in the Church in Wales. Between 2004 and 2017, she served as the Dean of Salisbury, and was the first woman to head o ...

- first woman to become bishop in the

Church in Wales The Church in Wales ( cy, Yr Eglwys yng Nghymru) is an Anglicanism, Anglican church in Wales, composed of six dioceses. The Archbishop of Wales does not have a fixed archiepiscopal see, but serves concurrently as one of the six diocesan bishop ...

Joanna Penberthy Joanna Susan Penberthy (born 1960) is a Welsh people, Welsh Anglican bishop. Since November 2016, she has served as the Bishop of St Davids in the Church in Wales. She was the first woman to become a bishop in the Church in Wales, when she was co ...

- second woman to become bishop in the

Anne Dyer Anne Catherine Dyer (born February 1957) is a British Anglican bishop, previously a rector and an academic administrator. In 2018, she became Bishop of Aberdeen and Orkney in the Scottish Episcopal Church. Subject to a report process, with a rec ...

- first woman to become bishop in the

Baptist

* Regina Claas in

Germany Germany,, officially the Federal Republic of Germany, is a country in Central Europe. It is the second most populous country in Europe after Russia, and the most populous member state of the European Union. Germany is situated betwe ...

:de:Bund Evangelisch-Freikirchlicher Gemeinden

Catholic

Ludmila Javorová Ludmila Javorová (born 31 January 1932 in Brno) is a Czech Roman Catholic woman who worked in the underground church during the time of communist rule in Czechoslovakia and served as a vicar general of a clandestine bishop. She was one of a n ...

- made public in 1995 her claim to have been

ordained Ordination is the process by which individuals are consecrated, that is, set apart and elevated from the laity class to the clergy, who are thus then authorized (usually by the denominational hierarchy composed of other clergy) to perform va ...

in 1970 during

Communist Communism (from Latin la, communis, lit=common, universal, label=none) is a far-left sociopolitical, philosophical, and economic ideology and current within the socialist movement whose goal is the establishment of a communist society, a s ...

rule in

Czechoslovakia , rue, Чеськословеньско, , yi, טשעכאסלאוואקיי, , common_name = Czechoslovakia , life_span = 1918–19391945–1992 , p1 = Austria-Hungary , image_p1 ...

. The ordination of Javorová, although officiated by a bishop in communion with the

Pope The pope ( la, papa, from el, πάππας, translit=pappas, 'father'), also known as supreme pontiff ( or ), Roman pontiff () or sovereign pontiff, is the bishop of Rome (or historically the patriarch of Rome), head of the worldwide Cathol ...

, was declared to be invalid. Several Catholic groups not in communion with the Pope allow women to be ordained. *

Christine Mayr-Lumetzberger Christine Mayr-Lumetzberger (born 1956) is a teacher and former Benedictine nun who was excommunicated from the Roman Catholic Church when she and six others were ordained as priests by an Independent Catholic bishop in 2002, she called herself a Ro ...

- excommunicated for unlawful ordination *

Sinéad O'Connor Shuhada Sadaqat (born Sinéad Marie Bernadette O'Connor on 8 December 1966; ) is an Irish singer-songwriter. Her debut album, ''The Lion and the Cobra'', was released in 1987 and charted internationally. Her second album, ''I Do Not Want What ...

- excommunicated for ordination by Independent Catholic Michael Cox *

Mary Ramerman Mary Ramerman is one of the founders of the Spiritus Christi church in Rochester, New York. Ramerman, a convert to Catholicism from Methodism who wished to become a priest, was encouraged by the Reverend James Callan, who was serving as Administra ...

- one of the founders of Spiritus Christi

Lutheranism

Elizabeth Platz Elizabeth Alvina Platz is an American Lutheran pastor and was the first woman in North America ordained by a Lutheran church body. She was ordained in November 1970 into the Lutheran Church in America (LCA). The ordination of women, approved earl ...

- first woman ordained in Lutheran Church in America, American

Lutheranism Lutheranism is one of the largest branches of Protestantism, identifying primarily with the theology of Martin Luther, the 16th-century German monk and Protestant Reformers, reformer whose efforts to reform the theology and practice of the Cathol ...

* Margot Käßmann - bishop in

Evangelical-Lutheran Church of Hanover The Evangelical-Lutheran Church of Hanover (german: Evangelisch-lutherische Landeskirche Hannovers) is a Lutheran church body ''(Landeskirche)'' in the northern German state of Lower Saxony and the city of Bremerhaven covering the territory of th ...

German German(s) may refer to: * Germany (of or related to) **Germania (historical use) * Germans, citizens of Germany, people of German ancestry, or native speakers of the German language ** For citizens of Germany, see also German nationality law **Ger ...

(1999-2010) * Maria Jepsen - bishop in

North Elbian Evangelical Lutheran Church The North Elbian Evangelical Lutheran Church (german: link=no, Nordelbische Evangelisch-Lutherische Kirche; NEK) was a Lutheran regional church in Northern Germany which emerged from a merger of four churches in 1977 and merged with two more churc ...

- first woman to become a Lutheran bishop worldwide

(1991-2010) * Bärbel Wartenberg-Potter - bishop in

(2001-2008) * Susanne Breit-Keßler - bishop in Germany *

Rosemarie Köhn Rosemarie Köhn (20 October 1939 – 30 October 2022) was a bishop of the Church of Norway, holding that position in the Diocese of Hamar from 20 May 1993 to 1 November 2006. Biography Köhn was born to a German father and Norwegian mother and ...

- bishop in

Church of Norway The Church of Norway ( nb, Den norske kirke, nn, Den norske kyrkja, se, Norgga girku, sma, Nöörjen gærhkoe) is an evangelical Lutheran denomination of Protestant Christianity and by far the largest Christian church in Norway. The church b ...

(1993–2006) *

Lise-Lotte Rebel Lise-Lotte Rebel (born 23 January 1951) is a bishop of the Church of Denmark. Between 1995 and 2021, she served as the bishop of the Diocese of Helsingør in the Evangelical Lutheran Church of Denmark. She was the first woman to become a bishop i ...

- bishop in Church of Denmark (since 1995) *

Christina Odenberg Christina Odenberg (born 26 March 1940) is the retired bishop of the Diocese of Lund in Sweden between 1997 and 2007. Biography Christina Odenberg is the daughter of Ingemar Odenberg and Kerstin, born Moberg. Odenberg was for some time politica ...

- bishop in

Church of Sweden The Church of Sweden ( sv, Svenska kyrkan) is an Evangelical Lutheran national church in Sweden. A former state church, headquartered in Uppsala, with around 5.6 million members at year end 2021, it is the largest Christian denomination in Sw ...

— (1996-2007) *

Irja Askola Irja Kaarina Askola (born 18 December 1952 in Lappeenranta, Finland) is the former Bishop of Helsinki. She was the first female Finnish bishop in the Evangelical Lutheran Church of Finland. Askola was the Bishop of Helsinki from 2010 to 2017. ...

- bishop in

Evangelical Lutheran Church of Finland The Evangelical Lutheran Church of Finland ( fi, Suomen evankelis-luterilainen kirkko; sv, Evangelisk-lutherska kyrkan i Finland) is a national church of Finland. It is part of the Lutheran branch of Christianity. The church has a legal positio ...

(since 2010) *

Marianne Christiansen Marianne Christiansen (born June 18, 1963 in Haslev) is a Lutheran bishop in the Church of Denmark. Life Marianne Christiansen is the daughter of Bishop Henrik Christiansen and Sister of Helle Christiansen, Head of the Church of the Cross in Den ...

- bishop in Church of Denmark (since 2013) * Antje Jackelén - bishop in

(since 2007) *

Eva Brunne Gerd Eva Cecilia Brunne (born 7 March 1954) is a bishop in the Church of Sweden. She served as the Diocese of Stockholm (Church of Sweden), Bishop of Stockholm from 2009 till 2019. She is the List of lesbian, gay, bisexual, or transgender firsts b ...

- bishop in

(since 2009) * Sofie Petersen - bishop in Greenland of Church of Denmark (since 1995) *

Ingeborg Midttømme Ingeborg Synnøve Midttømme (born 1961) is a Norwegian Lutheran bishop for the Diocese of Møre in the Church of Norway. Midttømme was born in Oslo, Norway on 20 November 1961. She has been the Bishop since 2008. She was elected as the first f ...

- bishop in

(since 2008) *

Elizabeth Eaton Elizabeth Amy Eaton (born April 2, 1955) is the fourth Presiding Bishop, and the first female Presiding Bishop, of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America (ELCA). She was first elected to this post in 2013 and was re-elected for a second term ...

- bishop in

Evangelical Lutheran Church in America The Evangelical Lutheran Church in America (ELCA) is a mainline Protestant Lutheran church headquartered in Chicago, Illinois. The ELCA was officially formed on January 1, 1988, by the merging of three Lutheran church bodies. , it has approxim ...

(since 2013) *

Solveig Fiske Solveig Margrete Fiske (born 26 October 1952) is a theologian and bishop emerita in the Church of Norway, serving as the bishop of Hamar between 2006 and 2022, when she retired. Originally from Frei in Møre og Romsdal, she graduated from the ...

- bishop in

(since 2006) * Marie C. Jerge - bishop in

(since 2002) *

Helga Haugland Byfuglien Helga Haugland Byfuglien (born 22 June 1950Biskop som programvert
NRK ...

- bishop in

(since 2005) * Susan Johnson - bishop in

Evangelical Lutheran Church in Canada The Evangelical Lutheran Church in Canada (ELCIC; french: Église évangélique luthérienne au Canada) is Canada's largest Lutheran denomination, with 95,000 baptized members in 519 congregations, with the second largest, the Lutheran Church–C ...

(since 2007) *

Tuulikki Koivunen Bylund Maritta Tuulikki Koivunen Bylund (born 8 April 1947) is a Finnish-Swedish theologian. She was appointed Bishop of Härnösand in central Sweden on 8 November 2009; she was the fourth woman to be ordained as a bishop in the Church of Sweden. She re ...

- bishop in

(since 2009) * Wilma Kucharek - bishop in

Slovak Zion Synod Slovak may refer to: * Something from, related to, or belonging to Slovakia (''Slovenská republika'') * Slovaks, a Western Slavic ethnic group * Slovak language, an Indo-European language that belongs to the West Slavic languages * Slovak, Arkan ...

(since 2002) * Caroline Krook - bishop in

(since 1998) *

Laila Riksaasen Dahl Laila Riksaasen Dahl (born 7 March 1947, in Oslo) is a Norwegian theologian who served as bishop of the Diocese of Tunsberg in the Church of Norway from 2002 to 2014. Dahl is a graduate from both the University of Oslo (1970, cand.mag. degree) a ...

- bishop in

(since 2002) *

Agnes M. Sigurðardóttir Agnes Margrétardóttir Sigurðardóttir (born 19 October 1954) is an Icelandic prelate who is the current Bishop of Iceland. She is the first woman to be elected a Bishop of the Church of Iceland. Biography Agnes was born in Ísafjörður. S ...

- bishop in Church of Iceland (since 2012) *

Kirsten Fehrs Kirsten Fehrs (born September 12, 1961, in Wesselburen) is a Lutheran bishop of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Northern Germany. Life Fehrs studied Lutheran theology at University of Hamburg. In December 1990 she was ordained as pastor in H ...

- bishop in

Evangelical Lutheran Church in Northern Germany The Evangelical Lutheran Church in Northern Germany (Evangelisch-Lutherische Kirche in Norddeutschland) is a Lutheran member church of the Evangelical Church in Germany (Evangelische Kirche in Deutschland, EKD). It was established on 27 May 2012 ...

(since 2011) *

Tine Lindhardt Tine Lindhardt (born 16 November 1957), a Danish theologian, is the Lutheran bishop of the Diocese of Funen from 4 November 2012. Lindhardt studied theology at Aarhus University, graduating in 1984. She has worked as a parish priest and has also t ...

- bishop in Church of Denmark (since 2012) *

Kristina Kühnbaum-Schmidt Kristina Kühnbaum-Schmidt (born 1964) is a German Lutheran bishop. Biography Kühnbaum-Schmidt was born in Braunschweig. She studied Lutheran evangelical theology at University of Göttingen and at Kirchliche Hochschule Berlin. She was orda ...

- bishop in

(since 2019)

Methodist

Rosemarie Wenner Rosemarie Wenner (born July 1, 1955) is a German Methodist bishop. She was the Presiding Bishop of the United Methodist Church in Germany from April 2005 until May 2017. Rosemarie Wenner studied in Reutlingen, Germany. After her ordination she w ...

- bishop in

Minerva G. Carcaño Minerva Garza Carcaño (born January 20, 1954 in Edinburg, Texas) is the first Hispanic woman to be elected to the episcopacy of The United Methodist Church (UMC), the second-largest Protestant denomination in the United States. She was elected ...

- bishop in the

United States The United States of America (U.S.A. or USA), commonly known as the United States (U.S. or US) or America, is a country primarily located in North America. It consists of 50 states, a federal district, five major unincorporated territorie ...

Judith Craig Judith Craig is a retired American bishop of the United Methodist Church, whose primary field of service was the United States. She was born on 5 June 1937 in Lexington, Missouri and elected bishop in 1984.She died on January 18, 2019. Education ...

- bishop in the

* Violet L. Fisher - bishop in the

* Carolyn Tyler Guidry - bishop in the

* Janice Riggle Huie - bishop in the

Leontine T. Kelly Leontine Turpeau Current Kelly (March 5, 1920 – June 28, 2012) was an American bishop of the United Methodist Church. She was the second woman elevated to the position of bishop within the United Methodist Church, and the first African American ...

- bishop in the

* Marjorie Matthews - bishop in the

Mary Ann Swenson Mary Ann Swenson is an American bishop of the United Methodist Church, elected in 1992. Birth and family Mary Ann Swenson (''née'' McDonald) was born 8 July 1947 in Pine Bluff, Arkansas. She was raised and educated in Jackson, Mississippi, whe ...

- bishop in the

* Mary Virginia Taylor - bishop in the

Karen Oliveto Karen Oliveto (born April 4, 1958) is an American bishop. She is the first openly lesbian bishop to be elected in the United Methodist Church. She was elected bishop on July 15, 2016, at the Western Jurisdictional conference. Her four-year term ...

- bishop in the

Pentecostal

Aimee Semple McPherson Aimee Elizabeth Semple McPherson (née Kennedy; October 9, 1890 – September 27, 1944), also known as Sister Aimee or Sister, was a Canadian Pentecostalism, Pentecostal Evangelism, evangelist and media celebrity in the 1920s and 1930s,Ob ...

- Founder of Foursquare International Church * Maria Woodworth-Etter - Ordained Assemblies of God Holiness and Pentecostal Pastor and Evangelist *

Ida Robinson Ida B. Robinson (August 3, 1891 – April 20, 1946) was an American Holiness-Pentecostal and Charismatic denominational leader. She was the founder, first Senior Bishop and President of the Mount Sinai Holy Church of America, Inc. Robinson forme ...

- Founder of Mt Sinai Holy Church of America *

Mary Magdalena Lewis Tate Mary Magdalena Lewis Tate ("Mother Tate") (January 3, 1871 – December 28, 1930) was an African American evangelist. She was the first American woman to serve as a Bishop in a nationally recognized denomination. She founded a Pentecostal denomina ...

- Founder of Church of the Living God *

Florence L. Crawford The Apostolic Faith Church, formerly the Apostolic Faith Mission, is a Holiness Pentecostal denomination of Christianity, with nationwide reach and headquartered in Portland, Oregon, United States. The Apostolic Faith Mission of Portland was foun ...

- Founder of Apostolic Faith Mission * Rosa Horn - Founder of Mt Calvary Pentecostal Church of All Nations * Michel Girtman-White (1949-2020) - Founder of The Cathedral at Greater Faith and Former Assistant Presiding Bishop of the Churches of the Living

Presbyterian

* Mary Levison - first woman to become a minister in the Church of Scotland * Sheilagh Kesting - minister in the Church of Scotland *

Lorna Hood Elizabeth Lorna Hood, (born 21 April 1953) is a minister of the Church of Scotland. From 1979 to 2016, she was the Minister of North Parish Church, Renfrew. From 2013 to 2014, she also served as Moderator of its General Assembly. Early life ...

- minister in the Church of Scotland *

Margaret Towner Margaret Ellen Towner (born March 19, 1925) is an American religious leader who was the first woman to be ordained a minister of the Presbyterian Church in the United States of America (PCUSA). Early life and education Margaret Ellen Towner was ...

- first woman to be ordained a minister of the

United Presbyterian Church in the United States of America The United Presbyterian Church in the United States of America (UPCUSA) was the largest branch of Presbyterianism in the United States from May 28, 1958, to 1983. It was formed by the union of the Presbyterian Church in the United States of Ameri ...

(UPCUSA) (1956) *

Rachel Henderlite Rachel Henderlite (December 30, 1905 – November 6, 1991) was an American religious leader who was the first woman to be ordained a pastor of the Presbyterian Church in the United States (PCUS), which later merged with the United Presbyterian Ch ...

- first woman to be ordained a pastor of the

Presbyterian Church in the United States The Presbyterian Church in the United States (PCUS, originally Presbyterian Church in the Confederate States of America) was a Protestant denomination in the Southern and border states of the United States that existed from 1861 to 1983. That y ...

(PCUS) (1965) *

Katie Geneva Cannon Katie Geneva Cannon (January 3, 1950 – August 8, 2018) was an American Christianity, Christian theologian and ethicist associated with womanist theology and black theology. In 1974 she became the first African-American woman ordained in the Unit ...

- first African American woman ordained a minister in

(UPCUSA) (1974) * Rebecca Reyes) - first Hispanic/Latina woman ordained a minister in the

(PCUS) (1979) * Elizabeth Kwon - transferred her ordination from Japan in 1979 and became the first female Korean-American ministern in the

(UPCUSA) (1979) * Holly Haile Smith Davis - first Native American woman ordained as a teaching elder in the Presbyterian Church, ordained in the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) (PCUSA) (1987)

United and Uniting churches

* Brigitte Boehme - Evangelical Church of Bremen (2001-2013) * Edda Bosse - Evangelical Church of Bremen (since 2013) * Yvonne V. Delk- first African-American woman ordained in the

United Church of Christ The United Church of Christ (UCC) is a mainline Protestant Christian denomination based in the United States, with historical and confessional roots in the Congregational, Calvinist, Lutheran, and Anabaptist traditions, and with approximately 4 ...

* Yvette Flunder - minister in

* Beate Hofmann -

Evangelical Church of Hesse Electorate-Waldeck The Evangelical Church of Hesse Electorate-Waldeck (german: Evangelische Kirche von Kurhessen-Waldeck; EKKW) is a United Protestant church body in former Hesse-Cassel and the Waldeck part of the former Free State of Waldeck-Pyrmont. Constituti ...

(since 2019) * Ilse Junkermann - bishop in Evangelical Church in Central Germany (2009-2019) *

Annette Kurschus Annette Kurschus (born 14 February 1963 in Rotenburg an der Fulda) is a German Protestant theologian and pastor. Since March 2012 she has been Praeses (or in German ''Präses'') of the Evangelical Church of Westphalia and since November 2015 sh ...

- bishop (''präses'') in

Evangelical Church of Westphalia The Protestant Church of Westphalia (german: Evangelische Kirche von Westfalen, EKvW) is a United Protestant church body in North Rhine-Westphalia. The seat of the praeses (german: Präses, the head of the church) is Bielefeld. The EKvW emerged ...

(since 2012) *

Madge Saunders Marjorie Prentice "Madge" Saunders (25 February 1913 – 2 March 2009) was a Jamaican Christian minister and community worker. She was the first woman in the United Church in Jamaica and the Cayman Islands to serve as a parish minister. Saunders g ...

- first woman in the United Church in Jamaica and the Cayman Islands to serve as a parish priest (1975) *

Adlyn White Adlyn White (1929 – 24 January 2017) was a Jamaican educator and Christian minister who was the first woman to be ordained by the United Church in Jamaica and the Cayman Islands. She was also the first woman to head the church, serving as its m ...

- first woman ordained by the

United Church in Jamaica and the Cayman Islands The United Church in Jamaica and the Cayman Islands is a united church formed on 1 December 1965 as the "United Church of Jamaica and Grand Cayman" by bringing the Protestant denominations "Presbyterian Church in Jamaica" and "Congregational Union ...

(1973); first woman to head the church (1991) * Lois Miriam Wilson - first woman moderator of the

United Church of Canada The United Church of Canada (french: link=no, Église unie du Canada) is a mainline Protestant denomination that is the largest Protestant Christian denomination in Canada and the second largest Canadian Christian denomination after the Catholi ...

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