The Episcopal Church's own news service, marking the 40th anniversary of the 16 September 1976 General Convention vote in Minneapolis that opened priesthood and the episcopate to women, canonically completing what the eleven women irregularly ordained on 29 July 1974 at Philadelphia's Church of the Advocate had begun. The change took canonical effect 1 January 1977.
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The Episcopal Church's own official news and record service reporting on its own General Convention's formal action, the strongest available source for the date a denomination's own canon changed. Not independent of its subject, so used only for the settled procedural dates, both already corroborated across multiple outside retrospectives read for this pass. NotesCited for both the 29 July 1974 Philadelphia Eleven ordination and the 16 September 1976 General Convention canon change, plus the 1 January 1977 effective date.
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PublisherEpiscopal News Service
Publication Year2016
URLhttps://episcopalnewsservice.org/2016/09/16/marking-40th-anniversary-of-general-conventions-approval-of-womens-ordination/
Source TypeOfficial denominational history
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