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Radio Ulster,9 mins

25 years of Women Priests

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25 years ago this week, the first women were ordained as priests in the Church of England. Bishop of Ripon in the Leeds Diocese, Dr Helen-Ann Hartley became the first woman ordained as a priest in the Church of England to become a Bishop anywhere in the world.

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