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Elizabeth Platz,
LCA, 1970
The ordination of Elizabeth Alvina
Platz into the clergy of the Lutheran Church in America on November 22,
1970, made headlines and the cover of The Lutheran....more
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Barbara Andrews
ALC, 1970
Barbara Louise Andrews became the
first woman ordained into the ministry of The American Lutheran Church....more
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Janith Otte-Murphy -
AELC, 1977
Janith Otte-Murphy was ordained by
the Pacific Synod of the church on October 30, 1977....more
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Earlean Miller - First
African American, LCA 1979
Earlean Miller, the first African-American
woman ordained in the Lutheran Church in America, was ordained on August
26, 1979....more
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Lydia Rivera Kalb - 1st Hispanic, 1979
Lydia E. Rivera Kalb,
first Hispanic Lutheran woman ordained, graduated from the
Lutheran School of Theology in 1979....more |
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Asha George-Guiser
- 1st Asian LCA 1982
The Rev. Asha George-Guiser
is the first Asian woman ordained by the Lutheran Church in
America on May 15, 1982....more |
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Kwang-Ja Yu - 1st
Asian, ALC 1985
The Rev. Kwang-Ja Yu, was
the first Asian woman to be ordained by The American Lutheran
Church on January 13, 1985....more |
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Alma Rainey
Copeland - 1st African American, LLC, 1985
The first African-American
woman to be ordained by The American Lutheran Church was
Maria-Alma Rainey Copeland....more |
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Marlene Whiterabbit
Helgemo - 1st Native American, 1987
The Rev. Marlene Whiterabbit
Helgemo, was the first Native American woman ordained as a Lutheran
pastor....more |
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Women's Ordination Accepted in LCA, ALC and AELC
While “It Didn’t All Begin With Ordination,” the history of
ordination of women in the Lutheran Church in North America did
begin on June 29, 1970 when....more |
