Bajan woman creates Anglican history

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Barbadian-born lay minister has created history by becoming the first woman to be ordained as a Deacon in the Anglican Diocese of the Windward Islands.

Eleanor Glasgow, Director of Lay Ministries of the Anglican Church in Grenada, broke new ground in the sub- region after being ordained as a Deacon at the St George Cathedral Church in St Vincent and the Grenadines.

Her ordination comes 11 years after the Windward Diocese assented to the ordination of women, after the idea was first rejected in 1997.

“I believe that by my answering the call and being accepted as a woman, that the door is now open for other women who believe they are so called to come forward,” Deacon Glasgow said in an interview in St George’s, where she has been a resident since 1992. “That in itself is breaking with tradition. Why should a woman be denied if she has been called?”

“You are breaking with tradition, so you would need to put structures in place to receive the woman.” The newly-ordained deacon grew up in Barbados, where she attained a first degree and a master’s degree, both in theology, at Codrington College. Deacon Glasgow’s ordination was her second history- making achievement, having become Barbados’s first female air traffic controller about 20 years ago. (Excerpt from Nationnews.com)

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