StoryCorps is teaming up with the diocese to record conversations with some of our female clergy - as part of our commitment to highlighting the 50th anniversary of women's ordination into The Episcopal Church. These interviews will be saved in the Library of Congress with a chance of airtime on NPR.
The Philadelphia 11 were ordained in 1974 at the Church of the Advocate in Philadelphia, two years before General Convention authorized the ordination of women. The women ordained were Merrill Bittner, Alla Bozarth-Campbell, Alison Cheek, Emily Hewitt, Carter Heyward, Suzanne Hiatt, Marie Moorefield, Jeanette Piccard, Betty Schiess, Katrina Swanson, and Nancy Wittig.
