St. Patrick, Female Ordination, Anti-Nazi Pope

Christianity is a faith with a long and detailed history, with numerous events of lasting significance occurring throughout the ages.

Each week brings the anniversaries of great milestones, horrid tragedies, amazing triumphs, telling tribulations, inspirational progress, and everything in between.

Here are just a few things that happened this week, March 11-17, in Church history. They include the death of Saint Patrick, the Church of England ordaining female priests, and an anti-Nazism declaration from Pope Pius XI.

Church of England Ordains Its First Female Priests – March 12, 1994

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This week marks the anniversary of when the Church of England ordained 32 female priests, the first women to be ordained in the British denomination’s history.

Taking place at Bristol Cathedral, the ceremony had the individual ordinations take place in alphabetical order, making Angela Berners-Wilson the first…