Stephen, Sir Leslie, and Sidney Lee, editors. The Dictionary of National Biography. Smith, Elder.
Anglican Church
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Cultural formation | Florence Farr | Brought up as an Anglican
, she developed in the 1890s a strong interest in eastern mysticism and the occult, and played an active role in the Order of theGolden Dawn
and then in the... |
Cultural formation | Susanna Hopton | The result of her studies was that she rejoined the Church ofEngland
in about 1660. |
Cultural formation | Harriet Hamilton King | Very little is known about her early life. Presumably white, she was born to an upper-class family with relations in the peerage, Scottish on both sides. Late in life she converted to Roman Catholicism
... |
Cultural formation | Mary Kingsley | MK
's family was English and presumably white, but it embodied several internal contradictions. Through her father she belonged to the professional classes, but on her mother's side she sprang from the working class. Her... |
Cultural formation | Eliza Meteyard | EM
came from a professional Anglican
family. She was an advocate of social reform, particularly of educational reform, and of wider roles for women. Allibone, S. Austin, editor. A Critical Dictionary of English Literature and British and American Authors Living and Deceased. Gale Research. 1271 Blain, Virginia et al., editors. The Feminist Companion to Literature in English: Women Writers from the Middle Ages to the Present. Yale University Press; Batsford. Lightbown, Ronald W., and Eliza Meteyard. “Introduction”. The Life of Josiah Wedgwood, Cornmarket Press. |
Cultural formation | Mary Palmer | MP
was born into the English rural professional class on the fringes of the gentry, and was a member of the Church of England
. Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/. Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/. under Sir Joshua Reynolds |
Cultural formation | Henrietta Battier | HB
's writings demonstrate that she was not only Irish but also an Irish nationalist, a Whig, a Protestant (probably Church of Ireland
) and a sympathiser with freemasonry. Battier, Henrietta. The Protected Fugitives. James Porter, http://Bodleian: 280 i 105. xiv, 120-30, 158ff, 27-31, 163ff, 181-2, 190-2 |
Cultural formation | A. S. Byatt | |
Cultural formation | Elizabeth Goudge | She belonged to the Church of England
, which was a great influence on her life. Goudge, Elizabeth. The Joy of the Snow. Hodder and Stoughton. 244 |
Cultural formation | Pamela Frankau | |
Cultural formation | Dorothy Leigh | |
Cultural formation | Mary Sidney Herbert, Countess of Pembroke | This Mary Sidney was born of the union of two families which were powers in the land. She made the most of her rank. She was a devout Anglican Protestant
, though her father's family... |
Cultural formation | Janet Schaw | JS
was a white Scotswoman of the land-owning and business class. She was a Presbyterian
by birth and training; as an adult she was in principle broad-minded and tolerant of religious difference, except for being... |
Cultural formation | Elizabeth Tipper | |
Cultural formation | Mary Rich, Countess of Warwick | She grew up as a merely nominal Anglican
without any inward and spiritual faith. Mendelson, Sara Heller. The Mental World of Stuart Women: Three Studies. Harvester Press. 80 Walker, Anthony, and Elizabeth Walker. The Vertuous Wife: or, the Holy Life of Mrs. Elizabth Walker. J. Robinson, A. and J. Churchill, J. Taylor, and J. Wyat. 8 |
Timeline
8 November 1978: The General Synod of the Church of England...
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8 November 1978
The General Synod of the Church of England
voted against the ordination of women, despite support for it from most bishops and lay members (not priests), and the recommendation of the Archbishop of Canterbury.
8 November 1978: The General Synod of the Church of England...
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8 November 1978
The General Synod of the Church of England
voted against the ordination of women, despite support for it from most bishops and lay members (not priests), and the recommendation of the Archbishop of Canterbury.
1986: Those in the Anglican mother-church who opposed...
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1986
Those in the Anglican mother-church who opposed the ordination of women secured a vote forbidding ordained women from other parts of the Anglican Communion
from celebrating the Eucharist in Britain.
February 1987: The St Hilda Community, activists for Anglican...
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February 1987
The St Hilda Community
, activists for Anglican
women's ordination, held its first Eucharist service in the student chapel of Queen Mary College
, London, celebrated by an ordained American, Suzanne Fageol
.
1990: The Church of England possessed about 1,630...
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1990
The Church of England
possessed about 1,630 officially redundant churches, or a tenth of the total in use; a quarter of these had been declared superfluous since 1958.
11 November 1992: The General Synod of the Church of England...
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11 November 1992
The General Synod of the Church of England
voted to allow women priests; this was the culmination of a long campaign for the ordination of women.
14 January 1994: Katharine, Duchess of Kent, converted to...
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14 January 1994
Katharine, Duchess of Kent
, converted to Catholicism
, becoming the first Roman Catholic member of the British Royal Family in more than 300 years.
12 March 1994: The first women priests in the Church of...
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12 March 1994
The first women priests in the Church of England
were ordained in Bristol.
18 June 2006: Katharine Jefferts Schori, Bishop of Nevada,...
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18 June 2006
Katharine Jefferts Schori
, Bishop of Nevada, became arguably . . . the highest-ranking woman in Episcopal
history when she was chosen presiding bishop of the Episcopal church in America.
21 April 2011: Hundreds of Anglicans converted to the Roman...
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21 April 2011
Hundreds of Anglicans
converted to the Roman Catholic Church
, with the blessing of Pope Benedict XVI, because they were not prepared to countenance the consecration of women bishops.
November 2012: The Church of England caused national consternation...
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November 2012
The Church of England
caused national consternation when its Synod narrowly voted down the opening of its episcopate in Britain to its first women bishops.
Wintour, Patrick, and Lizzy Davies. “Bishop vote sets state against church”. Guardian Weekly, p. 16.
14 July 2014: Reversing a decision of November 2012, the...
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14 July 2014
Reversing a decision of November 2012, the Synod of the Church of England
voted to allow women to be consecrated as bishops. Justin Welby
, Archbishop of Canterbury, expressed delight at the decision.
Castle, Stephen. “Church of England Votes to Accept Women as Bishops”. The New York Times.
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