Movement for the Ordination of Women

The Movement for the Ordination of Women (MOW) was an organisation which campaigned for the ordination of women as deacons and priests in the Church of England. It operated from the late 1970s until women were ordained as priests in the early 1990s. Its first Moderator was Stanley Booth-Clibborn, Bishop of Manchester, who served from 1979 to 1982.^[1] MOW was effectively succeeded by Women and the Church.

The decision in 1978 by the Church of England General Synod to refuse women's ordination led to the foundation of MOW.^[2]

MOW followed in the footsteps of the League for the Church Militant, the 1930 re-grouping of the Church League for Women's Suffrage.

MOW published the first edition of All Desires Known by Janet Morley.^[3]

Australia[]

The Movement for the ordination of Women can also refer to a women's ordination organization founded within the Anglican Church of Australia by Patricia Brennan in the 1970s.

There were differences within this Australian group about styles of protest and activism. Some members were uncomfortable in the public arena and feared that "engaging in political strategy and power games" might divert the issue from its spiritual path.^[4]^{[failed verification]}

References[]

^ "Bishop Retires". The Independent (1662). London. 14 February 1992. p. 12.
^ Daggers, Jenny (1999). "The Emergence of Feminist Theology from Christian Feminism in Britain". Journal of the European Society of Women in Theological Research. 7: 137–144. doi:10.2143/ESWTR.7.0.2002946. 1978 marked a high point of optimism among those wishing to see the Anglican ordination of women. Prior to the 1978 Church of England Synod debate on the matter, Canon Sister Mary Michael Simpson, who was ordained within the American Episcopal Church, made a visit to Britain. Invited by Una Kroll, her visit occasioned co-operation between component groups of the broad constituency in the organisation of her tour. The subsequent Synod refusal of women's ordination led directly to the founding of the Movement for the ordination of Women.
^ Morley, Janet (1988). All Desires Known. London: Movement for the Ordination of Women and Women in Theology. ISBN 0951303902.
^ Lindsay, Elaine; Scarfe, Janet, eds. (2012). Preachers, Prophets and Heretics: Women's Ministry in the Anglican Church of Australia. Sydney: NewSouth Publishing. ISBN 978-1-74223-337-6.

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[1] "Bishop Retires". The Independent (1662). London. 14 February 1992. p. 12.

[2] Daggers, Jenny (1999). "The Emergence of Feminist Theology from Christian Feminism in Britain". Journal of the European Society of Women in Theological Research. 7: 137–144. doi:10.2143/ESWTR.7.0.2002946. 1978 marked a high point of optimism among those wishing to see the Anglican ordination of women. Prior to the 1978 Church of England Synod debate on the matter, Canon Sister Mary Michael Simpson, who was ordained within the American Episcopal Church, made a visit to Britain. Invited by Una Kroll, her visit occasioned co-operation between component groups of the broad constituency in the organisation of her tour. The subsequent Synod refusal of women's ordination led directly to the founding of the Movement for the ordination of Women.

[3] Morley, Janet (1988). All Desires Known. London: Movement for the Ordination of Women and Women in Theology. ISBN 0951303902.

[Lindsay-4] Lindsay, Elaine; Scarfe, Janet, eds. (2012). Preachers, Prophets and Heretics: Women's Ministry in the Anglican Church of Australia. Sydney: NewSouth Publishing. ISBN 978-1-74223-337-6.

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