page_title: Ordination of women in the Anglican Communion
section_title: Episcopal Church in the United States
hierarchical_section_title: Ordination of women in the Anglican Communion / Ordination of bishops / Episcopal Church in the United States
caption_attribution_description: العربية: كاثرين جيفيرتس شوري، اول امراة تتولى منصب أسقف الكنيسة الأسقفية الأمريكية Català: Katharine Jefferts Schori, primera dona elegida com a bisbe per l'Església Episcopal dels Estats Units, el 2006 Čeština: Katharine Jefferts Schori, předsedající biskupka americké episkopální církve Deutsch: Katharine Jefferts Schori, Presiding Bischöfin von die Episkopalkirche der Vereinigten Staaten von Amerika und Primas Anglikanischen Kirchengemeinschaft English: The Most Reverend Dr. Katharine Jefferts Schori, 26th Presiding Bishop of the Episcopal Church Español: Katharine Jefferts Schori es una oceanógrafa y clériga estadounidense de la Iglesia Episcopal en los Estados Unidos de América Suomi: Piispa Katharine Jefferts Schori Français&#160;: L'évêque-présidente (Primat) de l'Église épiscopale des États-Unis Katharine Jefferts Schori, en février 2010 Italiano: Katharine Jefferts Schori, Vescovo presidente della Chiesa episcopale degli Stati Uniti d'America Polski: Prymas Kościół Episkopalny w Stanach Zjednoczonych Katharine Jefferts Schori Português: Katharine Jefferts Schori é uma episcopisa estadunidense, atual líder da Igreja Episcopal dos Estados Unidos da América Русский: Председательствующий епископ Кэтрин Джеффертс Шори Srpskohrvatski / српскохрватски: Prečasna Dr. Katharine Jefferts Schori je izabrani predsjedajući biskup Episkopalne crkve u SAD. Ona je prva žena izabrana za primasa u anglikanskim crkvama Walon: Katharine Jefferts Schori, mwaisse vekesse di l' Eglijhe episcopalyinne des Estats-Unis d' Amerike 中文: 嘉芙蓮·舒歌莉
context_page_description: The ordination of women in the Anglican Communion has been increasingly common in certain provinces since the 1970s. Several provinces, however, and certain dioceses within otherwise ordaining provinces, continue to ordain only men. Disputes over the ordination of women have contributed to the establishment and growth of progressive tendencies, such the Anglican realignment and Continuing Anglican movements.
  Some provinces within the Anglican Communion ordain women to the three traditional holy orders of bishop, priest and deacon. Other provinces ordain women as deacons and priests but not as bishops; others still as deacons only.
  Within provinces which permit the ordination of women, approval of enabling legislation is largely a diocesan responsibility. There may, however, be individual dioceses which do not endorse the legislation, or do so only in a modified form, as in those dioceses which ordain women only to the diaconate, regardless of whether or not the ordination of women to all three orders of ministry is canonically possible.
context_section_description: The first woman to become a bishop in the Anglican Communion was Barbara Harris, who was ordained suffragan bishop of Massachusetts in the United States in February 1989. As of August 2017, 24 women have since been elected to the episcopate across the church. The election in December 2009 and consecration on 15 May 2010 of Mary Glasspool, who is openly gay and lives with her partner of 20 years, as a suffragan bishop in the Diocese of Los Angeles attracted attention owing to the continued controversy over gay bishops in Anglicanism.
  The Episcopal Church in the United States also elected the first woman to become a primate (or senior bishop of a national church), Katharine Jefferts Schori, who was elected as 26th Presiding Bishop and Primate of the Episcopal Church at the 2006 General Convention for a nine-year term (2006-2015).
caption: Katharine Jefferts Schori, Presiding Bishop of the Episcopal Church (2006–2015), the first female primate in the Anglican Communion[90]
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