Kathleen Margaret Brown MBE was the first woman in the Church of Ireland to be ordained to full-time ministry. [1]
Brown was curate under Brian Courtney at St. Nicholas', Carrickfergus, and remained in the parish from 1988 until 1992 when she was instituted as rector at St. Paul's Parish Church, Belfast. During her time there, however, the parish amalgamated with the local parish of St. Barnabas in 1992 and stands today as the parish church of St. Paul and St. Barnabas, York Street.
Along with Irene Templeton, Brown was ordained by Samuel Poyntz, Bishop of Connor, on 24 June 1990. [2] In 2000 she was made a canon of St Anne's Cathedral, Belfast.
Brown retired from full-time ministry in 2007. She is currently pastoral minister to the widows of clergy in the Diocese of Connor,
Brown received the Member of the Order of the British Empire (MBE) for services to the community in Northern Ireland in the Queen's Birthday Honours 2007. She had gained a Bachelor of Divinity (BD) and a Bachelor of Theology (BTh).
William John Cardinal Conway was an Irish cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church who served as Archbishop of Armagh and Primate of All Ireland from 1963 until his death, and was elevated to the cardinalate in 1965. He was head of the Catholic Church in Ireland during the reforms of the Second Vatican Council.
The Diocese of Dunedin is one of the thirteen dioceses and hui amorangi of the Anglican Church in Aotearoa, New Zealand and Polynesia. The diocese covers the same area as the provinces of Otago and Southland in the South Island of New Zealand. Area 65,990 km2, population 272,541 (2001). Anglicans are traditionally the third largest religious group in Otago and Southland after Presbyterians and Roman Catholics.
The Diocese of Down and Connor, is a Latin Church ecclesiastical territory or diocese of the Catholic Church in Northern Ireland. It is one of eight suffragan dioceses in the ecclesiastical province of the metropolitan Archdiocese of Armagh. The present bishop is Noel Treanor.
Dónal McKeown is a prelate of the Roman Catholic Church and Bishop of Derry in Ireland.
Thomas Allan Smail was a leading Scottish theologian in the charismatic movement in the United Kingdom.
The Episcopal Diocese of Oklahoma dates back to 1837 as a Missionary District of the Episcopal Church in the United States of America. The General Convention of the Episcopal Church recognized The Diocese of Oklahoma in 1937. The diocese consists of all Episcopal congregations in the state of Oklahoma. The ninth Bishop and sixth diocesan Bishop is Poulson C. Reed, consecrated in 2020.
The Diocese of Connor is in the Province of Armagh of the Church of Ireland.
Alan Edwin Thomas Harper, is a retired Anglican bishop. He served in the Church of Ireland as Archbishop of Armagh and Primate of All Ireland from 2007 to 2012.
The Episcopal Diocese of Albany is a diocese of the Episcopal Church covering 19 counties in northeastern New York state. It was created in 1868 from a division of the Episcopal Diocese of New York.
Tod David Brown is an American prelate of the Roman Catholic Church. He served as Bishop of the Diocese of Boise in Idaho from 1989 to 1998 and as Bishop of the Diocese of Orange in Southern California from 1998 to 2012.
Harold Creeth Miller is a retired Irish Anglican bishop. He served as bishop of the Diocese of Down and Dromore in the Church of Ireland. Coming from a Methodist background, he was elected bishop in 1997 and was considered to represent an evangelical position within the Church.
Noel Treanor is the 32nd and current bishop of the Irish diocese of Down and Connor. On 22 February 2008, Pope Benedict XVI announced the appointment of Noel Treanor as Bishop. He was ordained to the Episcopate and installed as Bishop of Down and Connor on 29 June 2008.
Robert Cyril Hamilton Glover Elliott was an eminent Irish clergyman in the middle of the 20th century. Ordained in 1915, he began his career as a chaplain to the Forces, after which he was Rector of All Saints, Belfast, Vicar of Ballymacarrett then Rector of Downpatrick. Promotion to be Dean of St Anne's Cathedral, Belfast, followed, after which he was elevated to the episcopate as Bishop of Connor. In retirement he continued to serve the Church as a Sub-Prelate of the Order of St John of Jerusalem.
The ordination of women in the Anglican Communion has been increasingly common in certain provinces since the 1970s. Several provinces, however, and certain dioceses within otherwise ordaining provinces, continue to ordain only men. Disputes over the ordination of women have contributed to the establishment and growth of progressive tendencies, such the Anglican realignment and Continuing Anglican movements.
Mathews Mar Barnabas was a Metropolitan of the Malankara Orthodox Syrian Church.
Patricia Storey is an Irish Anglican bishop. Since 2013, she has been the Bishop of Meath and Kildare in the Church of Ireland. She was the first woman to become a bishop in the Church of Ireland and the first woman to be an Anglican bishop in Ireland and Great Britain.
David Robert Malvern Monteith is a Northern Irish Anglican priest in the Church of England. Since May 2013, he has served as the Dean of Leicester.
Rt. Rev. Mgr. Canon James P. Clenaghan, P.P., V.G., St Malachy's Church, Belfast was a distinguished senior Irish churchman and educationalist whose entire ministry was in the Diocese of Down and Connor where he rose to become Vicar General.
Catherine Ann Sourbut Groves is a British Anglican priest. Since November 2020, she has served as Archdeacon of Lindisfarne in the Church of England's Diocese of Newcastle. She had previously worked in academia and administration at the University of Bath, and in parish ministry in the Diocese of Bath and Wells
Thomas Shane Forster is a Northern Ireland Anglican priest. Since February 2021, he has been Dean of Armagh, the senior priest of St Patrick's Cathedral, Armagh and the Church of Ireland's Diocese of Armagh.