Women have been ordained as priests in all 110 dioceses of the Episcopal Church, after the last holdout, in Quincy, Ill., ordained its first woman on Saturday (Oct. 16).
The Rev. Margaret Lee, a grandmother of five and former chemist, is the first woman ordained a priest in the Peoria-based Diocese of Quincy’s 133-year history, according to Episcopal News Service. She had been a deacon since 1996.
They seem to omit that most of the Diocese has left for the ACNA and are counting all the former parishes as currently in ECUSA.
As if this ordination is happening because Bishop Ackerman retired, not that the rightful ecclesiastical authority has been supplanted by the national church. Shameful all the way around.
That’d be the rump diocese. Bonnie Anderson must be proud. So must the General Convention redux.