What is the role of women in the Celtic Church?
A. The Celtic Church completely accepts the ordaining of suitable female candidates. It was never influenced by Roman social codes that considered women to be property and drew upon the fact that there were many female followers of Jesus; that women served in the role of priests in administering the first house churches and that the New Testament mentions a female deacon, Phoebe. Paul’s letters address many of these women leaders. The Celtic Church was the first church to have female saints in Ita, who served at Killeedy and Brigid who was ordained as a bishop in the Irish Church. Please click here for more information about women leaders in the Church.
