Neither laywomen nor formally ordained, these women do not receive the recognition, education, financial support or status enjoyed by Buddhist men in their countries.

He then moved to Angers to teach philosophy, and was formally ordained a priest while there in 1649.

Sangsun was formally ordained to bishop on March 25, 1985.

By the 1980s he had become known to many as Reverend Sims, though he was never formally ordained.

He was formally ordained on March 25, 1999.

He was formally ordained to the ministry in 1897.

Although he was never formally ordained as a rabbi, he is credited for enabling the study of Torah.

He was formally ordained as an Anglican priest in 1936.

He was formally ordained as a Seventh Day Adventist pastor in 1989.

He was not formally ordained until 30 May 1699.