The African Methodist Episcopal Church's own Women in Ministry body, recording that the denomination began ordaining women as Local Deacon in 1948, extended ordination to Local Elder in 1956, and did not ordain women to Itinerant orders, full clergy standing, until 1960.
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The denomination's own ministry body recording its own ordination history, the strongest available source for these three internal dates. The 1948, 1956 and 1960 dates are corroborated against an independent scholarly citation (Madlock and Glenn, eds., 2021) reproduced in the same terms before citing. NotesCited for 1948 (Local Deacon), 1956 (Local Elder) and 1960 (Itinerant orders, full clergy rights).
Citation
PublisherAME Women in Ministry
URLhttps://amewim.org/our-herstory
Source TypeOfficial denominational history
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