Jacqueline Means
After an "irregular" ordination, Jacqueline Means was formally and officially ordained by the Episcopal Church (USA) on January 1, 1977, making her the first woman ordained in the Episcopal Church with official sanction.
Jacqueline Means currently serves in a ministry focusing on prison chaplaincy.
Elsewhere on the Web
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Betty Bone Scheiss
Honoring one of the Philadelphia 11, ordained in 1974. -
Religion & Women's History: Resources
From your About.com Guide, a selection of links on women and religion. -
Ordination of Women
One woman's argument for ordination of women. -
Episcopal Church in the United States
Official web site of the Episcopal Church.
Print bibliography
- Women and Religion Reading List
- A Priest Forever: One Woman's Controversial Ordination in the Episcopal Church, by Carter Heyward, 1999.
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Text © 1999-2006 Jone Johnson Lewis.

