He supported female ordination in the 1970s, then a controversial subject.

For example, some Anglo-Catholics or Evangelicals, while theologically very different, may share opposition to female ordination.

She has a long history working with interfaith coalitions on a variety of issues including: social justice, peace, anti-racism work, gender equality, human rights and female ordination in the Catholic Church.

The CCoB is opposed to female ordination and leadership and the ordination of homosexual men.

It claims that female ordination is a fundamental change in Anglican doctrine that can be brought about only by act of Parliament.

Evidence of female diaconal ordination itself is less conclusive for the ninth through early twelfth centuries than for previous eras.

He wrote about his views on female ordination in the 1994 book Equal and Different and related his journey to Orthodoxy in The True Light (1994).

The church has also pledged that it will not discriminate, in either choosing priests or making senior promotions, against those who oppose female ordination.

In 2003 the European apostles decided on female ordination and in 2004 the first three female deacons were ordained in Germany.