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Neither Male Nor Female:

Who is Doing the Work?:

Chart: Women in Ministry in Early Centuries

Church history is full of female martyrs. There probably thousands of women who died for the charge of Christianity. Here I recored a very scant handfull. There are also many more deaconesses and women who spread the gospel in the centuries after the Apotles.This is only a small sample.

Women in Gospels

Mary the Mother	Gospels	Theotokas
Anna	Luke	Prophetess
Mary Magdeline	Gospels	witness to Resurrection/evangelist
Mary Bethany	John	friend of Jesus
Martha Bethany	John	friend of Jesus
Susana	Luke 8:1-3	helper
Joana	Luke 24	first witness to Resurrection/evangelist
Salome	Mark 16	first witness to resurrection/evangelist
Sameritan woman	John	witness Jesus' ministry/evangelist
Mrs Pilate	Luke	defended Jesus to Pilate

Women in Early Chruch (in NT)

Phoebe	Rom 16:1	minister/President chruch Cenchrea
Priscilla	Rom 16:3	Teacher/chruch leader
Mary	Rom 16:6	church worker
Persis	Rom 16:6	church worker
Junia	Rom 16:7	Apostle
Tryphena	Rom 16:12	church worker
Tryphosa	Rom 16:12	church worker
Mother of Rufus	Rom 16:13	Motherly figure
Julia	Rom 16:15	saint
Sister of Nereus	Rom 16:15	Christian greeted by Paul
Euodia	Philipians 4	co-worker of Paul
Syntyche	Philipians 4	co-worker of Paul
Apphia	Philemon 2	house chruch leader
Lydia of Thyatira	Acts 16:15	house chruch leader
Nympha of Laodicea	Colossians 4:15	house chruch leader
Four Daughers Philip	Acts 21:8-9	Prophetesses, teachers, historians
Elect Lady(?)	II John	chruch leader

Age of Apostolic Fathers (post NT)

name	century	source	ministry/accomplishment
Marianne("sister of Philip")	1	western canon	deconess/prophetess
Flavia Domatilla	late 1	Western canon	martyr
Theckla*	late 1	Eastern canon	Apostle/prophetess/founder of community
Ammia of Philidelphia**	early 2	Eusebius Chapter XVII. via Miltiades	prominant prophetess
Philumene	2	canon	visionary/martyr
Perpetua	2	canon	visionary/martyr
Unnamed Prophetess Carthage	early 3	Tertullian (On the Soul 9.4)	prophetess/healer/ teacher
unnamed Prophetess of Asia Minor Prophetess,	mid 3	Cyprian (Epistle 74.10)	ecstatic prophetess/healer/celibrated eucharist and baptized.
2 Unnamed Deaconesses	mid 2	Pliny Letter to Trajan 10.96	Deaconesses/tortured
Nina of Georgia (Cappadocia)	3/4	canon/legond	slave/preacher/cured Queen Nana of Georiga, converted nation.
Paula of Bethlehem	347-404	canon	ealry monastic
ST.Melania the Elder	343-409	canon	Patroness/Pilgrim/evangleist/friend of Augustine
Clotilde	474- 545	39	converted Franks through husband Clovis
Meliana younger	383-439	canon	founder of commuities/Patron/early monastic
St. Catherine of Alexandria	305	canon	visionary/evengelist to Philosophers/martyr
Amprucla	4th	St John Chrysostom Epistle ciii	deaconess/social reformer
Pentadia	4th	Chrysostom epistle civ	social reformer/deaconess
Olypia	4th	Chrysostom 17 letters to her	head deaconess Constantinople/social reformer/liberator
Unnamed Deaconessess Alexandria	4th	Theadoret (lauding them for their zeal and devotion	deaconesses
Celeria	4th	Theadoret	deaconess
Macrina (sister of St. Basil)	Gregory of Nissay Life of Macrina	5	deacnoness/founder of community at Annesi in Pontus
Unnamed female preists of Itally	5	Gelasius, Epistle 14.26	priests

*Theckla is a saint in the Eastern chruch, she was attested by several chruch fathers, who called her "equal to the Apostles," she was also said to have "enlightened many," euphimism for batpism.

**She was very pomenant in her day, and is held up as a standard againt the montanists.

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