[Anglican Communion News Service] A service has been held in the chapel of Lambeth Palace – the official London residence of the archbishops of Canterbury – to celebrate 25 years of the ordination of women in the Church of England. Then-Bishop of Bristol Barry Rogerson ordained 32 women in Bristol Cathedral on March 12, 1994 in the first of many ordinations that year. A message from Rogerson was read to the more than 80 female priests who were invited to the March 1 service.

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