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Twenty five years on…..Doves, hope and challenge
July 2nd, 2019
Memory sometimes plays tricks on you, and especially if you are looking back 25 years. But I think that I can remember it quite clearly amidst all the excitement and… Read more »
Twenty-five years on: A Service of Thanksgiving at Ripon Cathedral Saturday 9th April 1994
July 1st, 2019
A week after Easter 1994, MOW organised a final conference and a national service of Thanksgiving that women were finally to be ordained as priests. It took place in Ripon… Read more »
Twenty Five years on…..becoming more fully myself all the time.
June 30th, 2019
I was ordained priest at Ripon Cathedral and the memories of the day are of warmth and intense joy. As the procession approached the main door of the cathedral it… Read more »
The first ordained woman in the Channel Islands
June 29th, 2019
Linda Le Vasseur, who was the first woman ordained in Guernsey, was ordained priest in 1996. We are including her story among our memories of the first ordinations of women… Read more »
The Fall of the Berlin Wall, GPS and the Ordination of Women: the liberation of the Church of England? 25 years and counting
June 29th, 2019
The Rev Dr Carrie Pemberton Ford was one of those ordained priest in Ely diocese in 1994, and was one of the members of WATCH’s first committee. Here she remembers… Read more »
Congratulations to those women who have recently celebrated 25 years since their ordination to the priesthood.
May 30th, 2019
We continue our celebration of those women who have recently celebrated 25 years since their ordination to the priesthood: Congratulations to the 293 women ordained after Pentecost in 1994 In… Read more »
Here Am I – a photographic exhibition celebrating the 25th anniversary of the first ordinations of women to the priesthood
May 24th, 2019
Here Am I A special exhibition of photography by the photo storyteller, Jim Grover, has been commissioned by the Bishop of Southwark, The Rt Revd Christopher Chessun, to celebrate the… Read more »
‘500 churches in the C of E still ban female priests’: Dioceses Commission Review sparks comment in The Sunday Times
May 24th, 2019
A recent article in the Sunday Times (28 April 2019) was headlined: ‘500 churches in C of E still ban female priests’. The report[1] highlighted the number of parishes revealed… Read more »
Twenty-five years on; reflections on ministry
May 13th, 2019
Chichester Diocese May 15th In 1992, the Bishop of Chichester, the Rt Rev Eric Kemp, was one of those most vehemently opposed to the ordination of women as priests. Chichester… Read more »
WATCH at Greenbelt 2019
May 9th, 2019
As in previous years, WATCH is delighted that we’ll have a presence at Greenbelt this year in the form of a stand in the newly named ‘Greenbelt Takeaway’ (previously G-Source)…. Read more »
