Women In Australia

The Anglican church around the years of 1980 to 1990’s the issue of women being allowed to be priests and bishops were being discussed and thought through, later on in 1986 women were being ordained to be a deacon within Australia’s Anglican churches, then later on in 1992 they were allowed to become priests. Archbishop Peter Carney is known to be the first to ordain the first Women priest in Perth on the 7th of March 1992. Later on in the same year on the 21st of November the legislation for the diocese that had wanted to ordain women so General Synod had passed the legislation. Out of 23 diocese in Australia there are only around four that won’t ordain women priest these are diocese of Ballarat, North West Australia, Sydney and The Murray,
The ordination of women Bishops and priests are known as substantial due to a lot more women becoming priests in this era. Reverend Libby Lane was known as the first female bishop, it took a long time but over the period of centuries and debates about how women’s nature would be in the church and towards god. The Roman Catholic Church would be use to female spiritual leaders, while it is known that there is a presence of some female lords that are spiritual in the British parliament. Libby Lane’s legislation to be in the church as a leader was signed by Queen Elizabeth the second, even if other churches may have had a women presence for a while. There are still many churches that have to consider and think about whether they are going to let there be women priest and bishops even if it is the 21st century many things can be changed for the good or the bad depending on the decision that is
Through the bible it women were known to do house work and to stay at home, occasionally w1omen would go to church with their husbands but were forbidden to speak and were to sit in silence. There are sections of the Christian scriptures from the New Testament was forged after Paul was known as dead that had to do with how later on the status of women was lowered to how it was before Christs ministry. Women’s behavior in society through the Hebrew structure of the old testament was limited to certain this these things were: That women who weren’t married shouldn’t leave the house of these fathers and that they needed permission to do so, Married women weren’t to leave the house without their husbands consent, Women were restricted and had no authority, they weren’t allowed to testify in a court, they weren’t to be seen in public places, Women couldn’t talk to strangers and Women were to be double vailed before they were allowed to have left the house. Christian women are known to seek out the guidance of god to bring happiness to their families, in the 21st century women who believe in Christ is known to have or to develop spiritually, emotionally, academically and physically. They are to fulfill their roll in God’s grace, women who see themselves as followers of god have to be born-again meaning that they have