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| | Facts about topic: (Ordination of women) |
 | | "Declaration Inter Insigniores on the question of the Admission of Women to the Ministerial Priesthood." Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, October 15, 1976. | | | John Paul II concluded his Apostolic Letter by saying: "I declare that the Church has no authority whatsoever to confer priestly ordination on women and that this judgment is to be definitively held by all the Church's faithful." | | | Some Orthodox Churches are prepared to accept the ordination of women as Deacons. |
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| | Ordination of women - definition of Ordination of women in Encyclopedia |
| | Controversy in a number of churches over the ordination of women as priests or ministers. | | | The Anglican communion on the whole accepts women priests, and more recently women bishops, although some conservative provinces and dioceses still reject them. | | | Ordination of women - definition of Ordination of women in Encyclopedia |
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| | ASSESSING THE ROOTS |
| | The Church of God in Christ, according to Cheryl Sanders, rejected the norms of white patriarchy and affirmed black female personhood by esteeming women leaders and educators. | | | Historians know that women often acted as worship leaders and evangelists in early Pentecostalism, but as of yet no one has critically assessed the role of women in the movement as a whole. | | | Mickey Crews suggests that in the Church of God there was a difference: "Although the overwhelming majority of Church of God members and ministers came from the lower socioeconomic classes, their principal spokesmen did not." The Church of God, 6. |
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