Marion Macfarlane
First Anglican woman ordained in Australia in 1884
Biography
Marion Macfarlane was the first woman to be ordained in the Anglican Church in Australia. She was ordained to the Female Diaconate in 1884 in the Diocese of Melbourne, then in 1886 converted to Catholicism, took the name Sister Mary Euphrasia, and joined the Sisters of the Good Shepherd.
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