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Religious Tolerance - September 24, 2008

Ordination of women in Eastern Orthodoxy,
mainline & liberal Protestant denominations, & other religions

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An article in a mid-1998 issue of The Greek American contained a transcript of a call-in radio program; it included a query by a listener to Archbishop Spyridon about women's ordination. He replied: "...the Orthodox Church does not know of anything of an institution of priestess. But it does know about the institution of deaconesses." He mentioned that such a post existed until the 11th or 12th century and that there are currently active discussions of "revitalizing that in institution today."

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