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Anglican-Roman Catholic Consultation on the Ordination of Women (ARCCOW)

1978

Persistent link

iarccum.org/org/?o=40
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Sub-headings on this page

• agreements
• minutes
• studies
• journals
• drafts
• correspondence
• misc

Members

• Donald Cameron
• Yves Congar
• Eric Doyle
• Pierre Duprey
• Edward Fasholé-Luke
• James Griffiss
• Christopher Hill (Secretary)
• John Hotchkin (Co-Chair)
• Christian Howard
• William Purdy (Secretary)
• Barry Valentine (Co-Chair)

Status of agreed statements

Agreed statements have been agreed by the dialogue members and submitted to the sponsoring churches for study. These texts express the careful considerations of the members of the dialogue but are not official statements of either of the churches.

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.

The following list includes all documents in the ARCCOW fonds, sorted by category and date. A list of all ARCCOW documents in order by protocol number is available at iarccum.org/doc/arccow/.

See also documents authored by ARCCOW

Agreed Statements

Versailles Report
Versailles, 3 Mar. 1978 ~ ARCCOW-9

Minutes & Reports

Ordination of Women to the Priesthood: Anglican Decisions and Reports, 1968-1977
Christopher J. Hill ~ Versailles, 8 Dec. 1977 ~ ARCCOW-1
Minutes of the Versailles meeting
Versailles, 3 Mar. 1978 ~ ARCCOW-6

Study papers

Theological Reflections on the Ordination of Women
NCCB ~ Dec. 1972 ~ ARCCOW-5A
Will Women Be Ordained?
Ann Gillen ~ Apr. 1973 ~ ARCCOW-5B
ARC-USA Consultation on Ordination of Women
ARC-USA ~ Cincinnati, Ohio, 25 June 1975 ~ ARCCOW-5D
Statement Concerning the Ordination of Women
Joseph Bernardin and NCCB ~ 7 Oct. 1975 ~ ARCCOW-5F
Anglicans and Roman Catholics on the Ordination of Women: An American Report
John Hotchkin ~ Versailles, Feb. 1978 ~ ARCCOW-5
The Origins of the Anglican-Roman Catholic Consultation on the Ordination of Women
Christopher J. Hill ~ Versailles, 27 Feb. 1978 ~ ARCCOW-2
The Ordination of Women and Anglican-Roman Catholic Relations
William A. Purdy ~ Versailles, 27 Feb. 1978 ~ ARCCOW-4

Journal articles

Ordination of Women in the Anglican Communion and the Ecumenical Debate
Christian Howard ~ Versailles, July 1977 ~ ARCCOW-3

Draft texts & Schema

Draft outline
William A. Purdy ~ Versailles, 1 Mar. 1978 ~ ARCCOW-7
Draft texts of the Versailles Statement
Versailles, 3 Mar. 1978 ~ ARCCOW-8

Working correspondence

Letter to Anglican members of ARCCOW
Christopher J. Hill ~ July 1978 ~ CFR-RC-55-57

Miscellaneous documents

Papers leading up to the Versailles Consultation, 1975-1977
~ CFR-RC-52
Background for the Versailles Consultation
~ CFR-RC-53
Papers of the Versailles Consultation
~ CFR-RC-54
Papers relating to Anglican-Roman [Catholic] consultation on the ordination of women
~ CFR-RC-55
Press release Concerning the Ordination of Women
Joseph Bernardin and NCCB ~ 20 Nov. 1975 ~ ARCCOW-5G
Inter Insigniores (Declaration on the Ordination of Women)
CDF ~ 15 Oct. 1976
Letter to the Apostolic Delegate by the faculty of the Jesuit School of Theology
16 Mar. 1977 ~ ARCCOW-5H
Letter to the Apostolic Delegate from the Women’s Ordination Conference
26 Sept. 1977 ~ ARCCOW-5I
Letter of the Presiding Bishop to the House of Bishops
6 Feb. 1978 ~ ARCCOW-5J

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