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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.

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  • A Priest Forever: One Woman's Controversial Ordination in the Episcopal Church, by Carter Heyward, 1999.

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