1974: Eleven women ordained Episcopal priests. 1975: First Women's Ordination gathering in Detroit; Women’s Ordination Conference founded. 1976: Experts of the Pontifical Biblical Commission ...

For example, only a few names of women were widely known: Mary, the mother of Jesus; Mary Magdalene, his disciple and the first witness to the resurrection; Mary and Martha, the sisters who ...

The Rev. Pauli Murray, the first black woman to be ordained in The Episcopal Church, was known for her civil rights activism and co-founding the pro-abortion National Organization for Women ...