2013 Event A vote by the General Synod of the Church of England approves legislation allowing women bishops to be ordained by 2014 1996 Event 4 women ordained priests in Jamaica, 1st in 330-year Anglican history 1991 Event Lesbian priest Elizabeth Carl ordained in Episcopal Church 1991 Event Lesbian priest Elizabeth Carl is ordained in Episcopal Church 1985 Event Amy Eilberg is ordained in New York as 1st woman Conservative rabbi 1977 Event Maurine Stuart, ordained as Zen priest by Eido Tai Shimano Roshi 1977 Event 1st woman formally ordained an Episcopal priest (Jacqueline Means) 1974 Event Episcopal Church ordained female priests 1945 Event John J "Cardinal" O'Connor, ordained as a priest 1905 Event Han Yong-woon [Bongwan, Manhae] (1879-1944) ordained a monk in Korea 1853 Event 1st U.S. woman ordained a minister, Antoinette Blackwell 1829 Event Joseph Smith ordained by John the Baptist according to Joseph Smith 1829 Birthday Phoebe Ann Coffin, 1st female ordained minister in New England 1825 Birthday Antoinette Brown Blackwell, clergy, 1st ordained U.S. female minister 1793 Event Father Stephen Theodore Badin is 1st U.S. Roman Catholic priest ordained 1787 Event 1st Unitarian minister in U.S. ordained, Boston 1760 Birthday Richard Allen, Philadelphia, 1st black ordained by Methodist-Episcopal church 1703 Event 1st Lutheran pastor ordained in America, Justus Falckner in Philadelphia 1695 Event Jonathan Swift ordained an Anglican priest in Ireland
