Leading women to leadership : Binational conference inspires ordained Anglican women to break 'through the stained glass ceiling'

Notes: "Dozens of ordained women from the Anglican Church of Canada and the Episcopal Church gathered together Oct. 8-10 [2019] for the Leading Women conference, an all-women meeting at the Mundelein Seminary in Chicago that sought to encourage women in church leadership". "The Leading Women conference began in the United Kingdom in 2010, at a time when there were no female bishops in the Church of England, as a way to prepare women who might be appointed bishops for the role. In 2016, the conference spread to the United States, inviting ordained Episcopal women to explore what it would be like to seek new leadership positions in the church. The 2019 gathering marks the first time that Anglican women from Canada have attended Leading Women. A total of 68 women attended the event, including 31 women from Canada and 37 women from the United States". Archbishop Melissa Skelton, of the diocese of New Westminster, was one of the main organizers of the conference. "Keynote speakers included Bishop Chilton Knudsen, assisting bishop in the diocese of Washington, and Canon Judy Rois, executive director of the Anglican Foundation of Canada. Knudsen spoke on trends she saw for the role of women in the church, while Rois discussed the history of the ordination of women in Canada".

Subjects: Leading Women Conference (2019); Women clergy - Anglican Church of Canada; Women clergy - Episcopal Church; Leadership - Religious aspects - Anglican Communion; Leadership - Religious aspects - Anglican Church of Canada; Leadership - Religious aspects - Episcopal Church; Skelton, Melissa (Melissa Maxine), 1951-; Knudsen, Chilton (Chilton Abbie Richardson), 1946-; Rois, Judy