the churches that dont allow femae priests are most of the catholic churches as they still believe in the old biblical teachings of women staying at home cooking and cleaning and men going out to work and worship
Allow women to become priests
That is mainly the Catholic church, the largest Christian denomination. Other Christian churches do allow their priests or preachers to marry, though.
It depends on which religion you are referring to. Some allow it, some do not.
Most protestant churches do not have priests. The person that leads the service is typically called a pastor or minister.
Yes, since 1994, women can be ordained as priests in the CofE. The church is slowly moving towards allowing women to be bishops. The church had to be specifically excluded from sex descrimination legislation to allow such practises to continue.
I cannot speak for all denominations, but many Protestant denominations allow women priests or ministers. The three that most people would know about are 1. The United Reformed Church (including Presbyterian and Congregationalist) that has had women ministers for decades. 2. The Methodist Church that also has had women ministers for decades. 3. The Anglican Church (which includes the Episcopalians in the USA) that also allows women priests, and, in some Anglican churches, women bishops too. The founder Church of the Anglican communion of Churches, the Church of England, has had women priests since the 1990s, and is currently exploring the consecration of women bishops. There are many other churches that have women leaders (eg the Salvation Army) although they are not regarded as 'ordained' in the same sense as the above three churches.
BEING AN ACTIVE EPISCOPALIAN I CAN TELL YOU THAT WOMEN AS WELL AS WOMEN PRIESTS ARE ACCORDED MORE RESPONSIBILITIES AND EQUALITY THAn WOMEN that ARE IN CONSERVATIVE PROTESTANT CHURCHES LIKE THE PENTECOSTALS AND SOUTHERN BAPTISTS AS WELL as THE ROMAN CATHOLIC CHURCH WHICH OF COURSE REFUSES TO ALLOW WOMEN TO ANSWER THE CALL TO THE PRIESTHOOD. I AM PROUD THAT MY CHURCH HAS REACHED OUT TO WOMEN AND TO ALL MINORITIES TO BE ALL THEY CAN BE SINCE WE WERE ALL CREATED BY GOD AND ALL ARE EQUAL IN GOD'S EYES NO MATTER THEIR GENDER, RACE OR SEXUAL ORIENTATION! How about less bias AND NOT A FULL PARAGRAPH OF CAPITALS! yeah take that biatch!
No, because the Catholic church has yet to allow women to be ordained as priests (they are only allowed to become nuns), and the Pope is selected from the world's cardinals--who were once priests.
An ecclesiophobic person fears priests.
Women were allowed to be ordained as priests in the Anglican Church starting in 1994, when the first women were officially ordained in the Church of England. In the Roman Catholic Church, however, women have not been allowed to be ordained as priests, and this remains unchanged as of now. Other denominations, like the United Methodist Church and the Episcopal Church, also allow women to serve as priests and ministers, with varying timelines for their ordination.
Unlike the Roman Catholic or most Orthodox Churches, Protestant churches allow their ministers to marry. Therefore, within the Methodist Church, ministers are free to marry whom they like.
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