Jacqueline Means

After an "irregular" ordination, 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.

She currently serves in a ministry focusing on prison chaplaincy.

Jacqueline Means on the Web

• The Rev. Jacqueline Means
  A description of Rev. Means' current work.

Related topics

• 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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