The Anglican Communion News Service reports that the ordained women of La Iglesia Anglicana de Mexico met together for the first time as a group recently.
Three quarters of the current women priests and deacons in the Anglican Church of Mexico have held a gathering to celebrate the ministry of ordained women in the Province. It brought together 18 out of the Province’s 25 ordained women for their first such meeting. It took place in the city of Cuernavaca in the state of Morelos and consisted of prayer, education sessions, fellowship and the celebration of the Holy Eucharist.
Special guests included the Rt. Revd Griselda Delgado, Bishop of Cuba and first female diocesan bishop in Latin America and the Revd Glenda McQueen, Episcopal Church Staff Officer for Latin American and the Caribbean.
The church became an independent Province of the Anglican Communion in 1995. It ordains women as deacons and priests, but not yet as bishops.
Read more on the gathering of women at the ACNS.
Photo credit: the Revd Glenda McQueen, via ACNS.