Forty-six different Churches make up the global Anglican Communion. Read more at straitstimes.com. Read more at ...

The Episcopal Church — the U.S. branch of the Anglican Communion — and its Virginia diocese have a ... Bishops ordained 11 women to the priesthood in ... a priest won’t lead Communion.

At the Church of the Holy Spirit in Salinas, Calif., one Sunday last month, Mrs. Phyllis Edwards, 48, walked to the altar to minister at 8 o'clock Holy Communion. Dressed in a deaconess' ...

An Episcopal Church court has sided with a Virginia priest who was disciplined for engaging in a Eucharistic fast in protest ...

The first time the women presided at Communion took place not in an Episcopal church but at the interdenominational Riverside Church in New York City, in October 1974. The road to acceptance was ...

The founding priest at the Episcopal Church of the Holy Apostles in Hoover, and one of the earliest women priests in the Episcopal Diocese of Alabama, has died. The Rev. Margaret “Maggie ...

The Philadelphia Eleven, a movie about the first female Episcopal priests, will be shown in Little Rock on Dec. 13, 2023. For nearly 2,000 years, the priesthood was a vocation for men only.

At that time, the Anglican Church in Macau did not have a resident priest. On May 22, 1941, bishop Ronald Owen Hall of the Diocese of Hong Kong and Macau ordained Li as a deaconess.

Vivian Schwanke De Oliveira, minister of the Anglican Episcopal Church of Brazil is seen here receiving Communion at the installation Mass of the Archdiocese of Chapecó on Feb. 9, 2025.

An Anglican woman bishop who addressed Pope Francis and his council of cardinal advisers told NCR she believes the pontiff took a "risk" in extending her an invitation to speak to the group.