Windward Islands Diocese ordains first woman deacon

The Diocese of the Windward Islands in the West Indies has ordained its first women deacon.

On June 11, Eleanor Glasgow, Director of Lay Ministries of the Anglican Church in Grenada, was ordained to the diaconate at the St George Cathedral Church in St Vincent and the Grenadines.

The 1997 Eames Monitoring Group report on the status of women clergy in the Anglican Communion, reported that while the Church of the Province of the West Indies had authorized women deacons and priests, two dioceses: Guyana and the Windward Island rejected the innovation.

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