In many denominations of Christianity the ordination of women is a new phenomenon. This is true enough that those so ordained gain some attention. This list deals with that and will include bishops as well, but due to historical differences deaconesses will not be included. In Presbyterianism, Methodism and a few other denominations the ordination of women predates 1900 and is now common enough to be unremarkable. Hence those denominations are not included.
Joyce M. Bennett - first English woman to be ordained a priest in the Anglican Communion
Miriam Byrne - provost in the Scottish Episcopal Church
Eleanor Clitheroe-Bell - priest and former businesswoman
Barbara Clementine Harris - first woman consecrated as an Anglican bishop
Griselda Delgado Del Carpio - first woman to become a bishop in Latin America in Anglican Church of Cuba
Kay Goldsworthy - first woman to become a bishop in Anglican Church of Australia
Jane Hwang - along with Joyce M. Bennett, first regularly ordained Anglican priests in Hong Kong
Penny Jamieson - first woman to become a bishop in Anglican Church in Aotearoa, New Zealand and Polynesia; first woman to become a diocesan bishop in the Anglican Communion.
Florence Li Tim-Oi- first woman ordained as an Anglican priest
Molly McGreevey - former soap opera actress, ordained priest in the Episcopal Church
Katharine Jefferts Schori - first woman to become primate of an Anglican church
Libby Lane - first woman to become a bishop in Church of England
Rachel Treweek - first woman to become a diocesan bishop in Church of England
Dame Sarah Mullally - suffragan bishop in Church of England
Victoria Matthews - first woman to become a bishop in Anglican Church of Canada; first woman to become a diocesan bishop; first woman to be translated from one diocese (Toronto) to another (Christchurch, New Zealand)
Pat Storey - first woman to become a diocesan bishop in Church of Ireland
Ellinah Wamukoya - first woman to become a diocesan bishop in Anglican Church of Southern Africa
Sarah Macneil - first woman to become a diocesan bishop in Anglican Church of Australia
Pushpa Lalitha - first woman to become a diocesan bishop in Church of South India
Church of Scotland
Mary Levison - first woman to become a minister
Elizabeth Platz - first woman ordained in Lutheran Church in America, American Lutheranism
Margot Käßmann - bishop in Evangelical-Lutheran Church of Hanover, German Lutheranism (1999-2010)
Maria Jepsen - bishop in North Elbian Evangelical Lutheran Church - first woman to become a Lutheran bishop worldwide Germany (1991-2010)
Bärbel Wartenberg-Potter - bishop in North Elbian Evangelical Lutheran Church, Germany (2001-2008)
Susanne Breit-Keßler - bishop in Germany
Rosemarie Köhn - bishop in Church of Norway (1993–2006)
Lise-Lotte Rebel - bishop in Church of Denmark (since 1995)
Christina Odenberg - bishop in Church of Sweden — (1996-2007)
Irja Askola - bishop in Evangelical Lutheran Church of Finland (since 2010)
Marianne Christiansen - bishop in Church of Denmark (since 2013)
Antje Jackelén - bishop in Church of Sweden (since 2007)
Eva Brunne - bishop in Church of Sweden (since 2009)
Sofie Petersen - bishop in Greenland of Church of Denmark (since 1995)
Ingeborg Midttømme - bishop in Church of Norway (since 2008)
Elizabeth Eaton - bishop in Evangelical Lutheran Church in America (since 2013)
Solveig Fiske - bishop in Church of Norway (since 2006)
Marie C. Jerge - bishop in Evangelical Lutheran Church in America (since 2002)
Helga Haugland Byfuglien - bishop in Church of Norway (since 2005)
Susan Johnson - bishop in Evangelical Lutheran Church in Canada (since 2007)
Tuulikki Koivunen Bylund - bishop in Church of Sweden (since 2009)
Wilma Kucharek - bishop in Slovak Zion Synod (since 2002)
Caroline Krook - bishop in Church of Sweden (since 1998)
Laila Riksaasen Dahl - bishop in Church of Norway (since 2002)
Agnes M. Sigurðardóttir - bishop in Church of Iceland (since 2012)
Kirsten Fehrs - bishop in Evangelical Lutheran Church in Northern Germany (since 2011)
Tine Lindhardt - bishop in Church of Denmark (since 2012)
United and Uniting Churches
Ilse Junkermann - bishop in Evangelical Church in Central Germany (since 2009)
Annette Kurschus - bishop (präses) in Evangelical Church of Westphalia (since 2012)
Brigitte Boehme - Evangelical Church of Bremen (since 2001)
Edda Bosse - Evangelical Church of Bremen (since 2013)
Yvette Flunder - minister in United Church of Christ
Regina Claas in Germany de:Bund Evangelisch-Freikirchlicher Gemeinden
Rosemarie Wenner - bishop in Germany
Minerva G. Carcaño - bishop in the United States
Judith Craig - bishop in the United States
Violet L. Fisher - bishop in the United States
Carolyn Tyler Guidry - bishop in the United States
Janice Riggle Huie - bishop in the United States
Leontine T. Kelly - bishop in the United States
Marjorie Matthews - bishop in the United States
Mary Ann Swenson - bishop in the United States
Mary Virginia Taylor - bishop in the United States
Karen Oliveto - bishop in the United States
Ludmila Javorová - made public in 1995 her claim to have been ordained in 1970 during Communist rule in Czechoslovakia. The ordination of Javorová, although attempted by a bishop in communion with the Pope, was declared to be invalid.
Several Catholic groups not in communion with the Pope allow women to be ordained.
Christine Mayr-Lumetzberger - excommunicated for unlawful ordination
Sinéad O'Connor - excommunicated for ordination by Independent Catholic Michael Cox
Mary Ramerman - one of the founders of Spiritus Christi
