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Deaconess - No Marriage Allowed
 The Milwaukee Deaconess Motherhouse, founded
in 1893, originally affiliated with Passavant’s Pittsburgh Synod, later
affiliated with the Iowa Synod. Among the answers in this brochure is
that deaconesses were expected to be unmarried or widowed without
children and “free from such home obligations as would interfere with
the pursuit of their calling.” (This is now no longer a requirement.)
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