Reviews of NO WOMEN IN HOLY ORDERS?
The women deacons of the Early Church which was an earlier edition of THE ORDAINED WOMEN DEACONS of the Church's first Millennium

by John Wijngaards

*** Margaret Hebblethwaite, The Tablet 26 October 2002, p. 20.
*** Pat Pinsent, Catholic Women’s Network no 73 (March 2003) pp. 18 - 19.
*** Francis Marden, MASS OF AGES, May 2003, p. 16.
*** Mary Tanner, The Church Times, 21 March 2003, p. 18.
*** Dorothea McEwan, RENEW (2003) March, pp. 5-6.

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Ordained women deacons

Tens of thousands of ordained women deacons served in parishes during the first millennium of the Church.

Ministries in the West

Women exercised a variety of ministries in North Africa and in different regions of Western Europe.

The Tasks of Women Deacons

Women deacons fulfilled pastoral functions at baptism, communion and anointing of the sick.