Florence Griffiths Buchanan
Florence Griffiths Buchanan (1861–1913) was a teacher and missionary in Queensland, Australia. She was known for her work and advocacy for the Melanesians, Melanesian and other Asian people. Biography Buchanan was left permanently crippled after a riding accident in 1888. After moving to Townsville to assist Anglican Bishop, Christopher George Barlow (1858-1915) in his diocese for two years, Buchanan moved to Thursday Island, Queensland, Thursday Island and worked among the multi-racial communities of divers. During the 1890s she worked on Thursday Island and was ordained there as a deaconess in 1908. In the same year she went to Moa Island (Queensland), Moa Island to conduct the St Paul's Anglican mission and teach school. In 1911 she resigned from her position, due to ill-health, but continued to teach until her return to Brisbane in 1913. She died of tuberculosis at St Helen's Methodist Hospital at South Brisbane, Queensland, South Brisbane. There is some uncertainty abo ...
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Deaconess Florence Griffiths Buchanan (1861–1913)
The ministry of a deaconess is, in modern times, a usually non-ordained ministry for women in some Protestant, Oriental Orthodox, and Eastern Orthodox churches to provide pastoral care, especially for other women, and which may carry a limited liturgical role as well. The word comes from the Greek language, Greek (), for "deacon", which means a servant or helper and occurs frequently in the Christian New Testament of the Bible. Deaconesses trace their roots from the time of Jesus, Jesus Christ through to the 13th century in the West. They existed from the early through the middle Byzantine Empire, Byzantine periods in Constantinople and Jerusalem; the Clergy, office may also have existed in Western European churches. There is evidence to support the idea that the diaconate including women in the Byzantine Church of the early and middle Byzantine periods was recognized as one of the major non-ordained orders of clergy. The English separatists unsuccessfully sought to revive the o ...
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