Nancy Charton Ph.D (1920 – 2015) was the first female ordained priest 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 ...

. Charton was a lecturer and later associate professor in the Department of Politics at

Rhodes University Rhodes University is a public university, public research university located in Makhanda, Eastern Cape, Makhanda (Grahamstown) in the Eastern Cape Province of South Africa. It is one of four universities in the province. Established in 1904, ...

. She was also a deacon at St Bartholomew's Church,

Grahamstown Makhanda, also known as Grahamstown, is a town of about 140,000 people in the Eastern Cape province of South Africa. It is situated about northeast of Port Elizabeth and southwest of East London, Eastern Cape, East London. Makhanda is the lar ...

. In September 1992 she was ordained priest by David Russell in the

Grahamstown Cathedral The Cathedral of St Michael and St George is the home of the Anglican Diocese of Grahamstown in Makhanda in the Eastern Cape Province of South Africa. It is the episcopal seat of the Bishop of Grahamstown. The cathedral is located on Church ...

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A Sermon preached to celebrate twenty years of the Ordination of Women to the Priesthood by the Rev'd Prof. Nancy ChartonSt Bartholomew's Church, Market Street, GrahamstownCollected texts at Cory Library
2015 deaths 20th-century South African Anglican priests 1920 births Academic staff of Rhodes University Place of birth missing South African women academics Women Anglican clergy {{SouthAfrica-reli-bio-stub