From News Works-Forty years ago, women were ordained for the first time as Episcopal priests at the Church of the Advocate in North Philadelphia. It was an illegal ceremony that would alter the future of the Protestant denomination.
Called the Philadelphia 11, the women were from around the country – many did not know one another – and congregated in Philadelphia to receive the laying of hands by four bishops, whose calling to bestow the responsibilities of the priesthood onto women opposed official Episcopal law.
"The mind of the church was not there," said the Rev. Storm Swain, director of Anglican studies at the Lutheran Theological Seminary at Philadelphia. "It had been voted down once before."
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http://www.newsworks.org/index.php/arts-culture/item/70814-philadelphia-11-blazed-trail-for-women-priests-in-the-episcopal-church
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