Anglicans to celebrate 40 years of women in priesthood in New Zealand

Posted Nov 7, 2017

[Anglican Communion News Service] The Anglican Church in Aotearoa, New Zealand and Polynesia is preparing to celebrate the 40th anniversary of the province’s first ordination of women to the priesthood. The New Zealand church was one of the first in the Anglican Communion to ordain women when, in 1977, it ordained five women.

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