A South China Morning Post retrospective on the Anglican Diocese of Hong Kong and Macao becoming, on 28 November 1971 under Bishop Gilbert Baker, the first province of the Anglican Communion to formally and permanently authorise the ordination of women to the priesthood, when Jane Hwang Hsien-yuen and Joyce Bennett were ordained, years ahead of the Church of England's own 1994 ordinations.
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A long-running metropolitan newspaper's history feature, not an academic or denominational primary source, but the 28 November 1971 date and the Hwang/Bennett names are corroborated against the Wikipedia biography of Joyce Bennett and the Anglican Communion's own timeline of women's ordination before being relied on. NotesCited for the 28 November 1971 date, the first jurisdiction in the Anglican Communion to formally ordain women priests, distinct from Florence Li Tim-Oi's unrecognised 1944 wartime emergency ordination in the same diocese.
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PublisherSouth China Morning Post
URLhttps://www.scmp.com/postmag/culture/article/3301483/how-hong-kong-led-way-women-priests-1970s-ahead-even-uk
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