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Documents of the Anglican-Roman Catholic Consultation on the Ordination of Women
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These fonds include all documents in our database that are associated with a particular dialogue commission.
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This is a work-in-progress. We are adding the scanned documents from the archive to this database, but there is considerable work to be done. Access to the complete archive for each dialogue commission is also available.
A small joint consultation established by the Anglican Consultative Council and the Secretariat for Promoting Christian Unity to consider “to what extent and in what ways churches with women priests and churches without women priests can be reconciled in sacramental fellowship”. The consultation held one meeting in February 1978 at Versailles, France.
This page lists all documents added to the IARCCUM.org site in order by original publication date. In addition to the documents prepared for the dialogue commissions, there are a number of additional documents that are included because of their relevance to the dialogues.
News articles are not generally included in the dialogue collection. See the news index to access these materials.
ARCCOW 5A: National Conference of Catholic Bishops (USA). Theological Reflections on the Ordination of Women. (Dec. 1972). https://iarccum.org/doc/1487.
ARCCOW 5B: Ann Gillen. In Context: Will Women Be Ordained? (Apr. 1973). https://iarccum.org/doc/1579.
ARCCOW 5D: Anglican-Roman Catholic Theological Consultation in the U.S.A. ARCUSA Consultation on Ordination of Women. (25 June 1975). https://iarccum.org/doc/1580.
ARCCOW 5F: Joseph Bernardin; National Conference of Catholic Bishops (USA). Statement Concerning the Ordination of Women. (7 Oct. 1975). https://iarccum.org/doc/1581.
ARCCOW 5G: Joseph Bernardin; National Conference of Catholic Bishops (USA). Press release Concerning the Ordination of Women. (20 Nov. 1975). https://iarccum.org/doc/1582.
Donald Coggan. Letter of the Archbishop of Canterbury to Pope Paul VI. (10 Feb. 1976). https://iarccum.org/doc/1601.
Paul VI. Response of Pope Paul VI to Archbishop Donald Coggan. (23 Mar. 1976). https://iarccum.org/doc/1602.
Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith. Inter Insigniores (Declaration on the Ordination of Women). (15 Oct. 1976). https://iarccum.org/doc/1371.
ARCCOW 5H: Letter to the Apostolic Delegate by the faculty of the Jesuit School of Theology. (16 Mar. 1977). https://iarccum.org/doc/1583.
ARCCOW 3: Christian Howard. Ordination of Women in the Anglican Communion and the Ecumenical Debate. (July 1977). https://iarccum.org/doc/629.
ARCCOW 5I: Letter to the Apostolic Delegate from the Women’s Ordination Conference. (26 Sept. 1977). https://iarccum.org/doc/1584.
ARCCOW 1: Christopher J. Hill. Ordination of Women to the Priesthood: Anglican Decisions and Reports, 1968-1977. (8 Dec. 1977). https://iarccum.org/doc/624.
CFR-RC-54: Anglican-Roman Catholic Consultation on the Ordination of Women. Papers of the Versailles Consultation. (1978). https://iarccum.org/doc/1577.
CFR-RC-55: Papers relating to Anglican-Roman [Catholic] consultation on the ordination of women. (1978). https://iarccum.org/doc/652.
ARCCOW 5: John Hotchkin. Anglicans and Roman Catholics on the Ordination of Women: An American Report. (Feb. 1978). https://iarccum.org/doc/646.
ARCCOW 5J: Letter of the Presiding Bishop to the House of Bishops. (6 Feb. 1978). https://iarccum.org/doc/1585.
ARCCOW 2: Christopher J. Hill. The Origins of the Anglican-Roman Catholic Consultation on the Ordination of Women. (27 Feb. 1978). https://iarccum.org/doc/627.
ARCCOW 4: William A. Purdy. The Ordination of Women and Anglican-Roman Catholic Relations. (27 Feb. 1978). https://iarccum.org/doc/645.
ARCCOW 7: William A. Purdy. Draft outline. (1 Mar. 1978). https://iarccum.org/doc/648.
ARCCOW 6: Anglican-Roman Catholic Consultation on the Ordination of Women. Minutes of the Versailles meeting. (3 Mar. 1978). https://iarccum.org/doc/647.
ARCCOW 8: Draft texts of the Versailles Statement. (3 Mar. 1978). https://iarccum.org/doc/649.
ARCCOW 9: Anglican-Roman Catholic Consultation on the Ordination of Women. Versailles Report on the Ordination of Women to the Priesthood. (3 Mar. 1978). https://iarccum.org/doc/33.
CFR-RC-55 - p. 57: Christopher J. Hill. Letter to Anglican members of ARCCOW. (July 1978). https://iarccum.org/doc/1359.
CFR-RC-52: Papers leading up to the Versailles Consultation, 1975-1977. (n.d.). https://iarccum.org/doc/678.
CFR-RC-53: Background for the Versailles Consultation. (n.d.). https://iarccum.org/doc/1335.
