Bishop Reade ordained male and female deacons and made provision for the Bishop of Lancaster to ordain women priests.

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Wales, like England, allows women to be deacons and priests but not bishops.

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The committee wants pastoral response guidelines to go to all ministers and deacons.

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Women were initially ordained as deacons by the Church of England in 1987 - and only as priests since 1994.

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There are extreme cases of people who left Wall Street to become deacons, TV personalities, or the founder of Amazon.com.

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The poor fellows left commanding the old economy are ... nice guys, church deacons, pipe smokers, Wednesday-afternoon golfers, worsted clubmen and hearty backslappers.

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The centre is also open to groups of adult pilgrims who want to visit for spiritual retreats and will soon play host to some deacons who are about to become priests and are enjoying a retreat at nearby St Non's.

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And why not have women deacons?

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Maya MacGuineas, president of the Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget and head of the Campaign to Fix the Debt, even got to ring the opening bell at the NYSE today, with CEOs and other deficit deacons at her side.

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