Women Priests: Church of Ireland

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Women Priests: Church of Ireland

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Location

Bangor

Year

1989

Date

Production 10/05/1989

Length

09min 55sec

Audio

sound

Format

Betacam

colour

Source

Digitised as part of the UTV Archive Partnership Project (ITV, Northern Ireland Screen and PRONI)

Courtesy

Department for Communities, ITV, Public Record Office of Northern Ireland

Rights Holder

ITV

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Description

A woman deacon of the Church of Ireland, chats to UTV about the differences that come with the job compared to her male counterparts. As it turns out there are not many, but the main difference is that she cannot give blessings or absolution and where her male colleagues eventually go on to the priesthood, she cannot.

An interview at the end of the footage with a male clergyman, gives insight into what the traditionalist argument is for not agreeing to make women priests, mainly that the woman "could not replicate Christ", however he believes that women are being recognised now in many areas where they hadn't been before.

Credits

A UTV Production

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