[NYer]

“From the time of Christ and the Apostles onwards, the Church has ordained only men to the priesthood. Christians today are bound to remain faithful to the example of Our Lord, to the testimony of Scripture, and to the constant and unvarying practice of the Church for two thousand years.”

Perfect! Now, K, please tell us how many Greek housewives are clamoring to become Orthodox priests ;-)?

[Kolokotronis]

“Now, K, please tell us how many Greek housewives are clamoring to become Orthodox priests ;-)?”

Personally, I have never met or heard of any. There is the odd female professor here and there and a few “crazy convert” women who get together and write up terribly self possessed papers on the subject, but I'll bet there aren't 50 of them in the whole Orthodox world. One reason for this is the enthusiasm for female monasticism we are experiencing and the fact that women have always played a very major role in The Church in the East anyway. The only thing they don't do is get ordained to major orders, though I think the female deaconate has been reestablished in Greece in isolated monasteries. Frankly, Orthodox people, women and men, just see no need for female priests.