[Martin Tell]

My wife and I regularly correspond with a woman who reconunced her TEC priesthood to become Orthodox (ROCOR). It took a lot of courage, especially since she is unmarried and had no other source of income. Her call was clear, however (she is one of the women priests Alice refers to; we are also familiar with Alice's story and see her posts regularly).

It's interesting that this story is kept so quiet.

Our friend may become a monastic.

[Alice Linsley]

I’m the blog host of Just Genesis http://jandyongenesis.blogspot.com/

I was formerly a “priest” in The Episcopal Church. I’m now Orthodox. So far I have about 10 women on the list of those who left ordained ministry in The Episcopal Church. The earliest to leave was Linda. She left in 2001 and is now Roman Catholic. Then I left in 2004. There are four of us so far who came into Orthodoxy. The one mentioned in the comment above (who may become a monastic) is extremely gifted spiritually (though she would hate to read this about herself). Anna and Susan left respectively in 2005 and 2007. Anna is canonically resident in the Province of Uganda and Susan in the Province of Kenya.

If you know of others, please email me. This is a stat that TEC doesn’t track, an obvious embarrassment.