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To: P-Marlowe; annalex

"Where do nuns come from?"

Nuns are not and never have been ordained. Only Protestants ordain women. There were, however, women deaconesses who were consecrated in a particular way which distinguished their position from that of the sacramental/liturgical priestly orders, in the early Church. The Synod of the Church of Greece has determined to reestablish this role for women quite recently.


261 posted on 01/04/2006 3:34:37 AM PST by Kolokotronis (Christ is Risen, and you, o death, are annihilated!)
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To: Kolokotronis

***Only Protestants ordain women.***

Try again.


272 posted on 01/04/2006 6:21:01 AM PST by Gamecock ("It is better to think of Church in an alehouse than to think of an alehouse in Church" Luther)
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