Wikipedia:WikiProject Women in Red/Religion

• Ruth Austin, sister (Christian sister?) and on Victorian Honour Roll of Women, cared for infants, page 4 of the booklet or page 6 of the slide
• Shakti Durga (born Kim Fraser) Australia's first female guru [1]
• Aviva Kipen, Rabbi [2]
• Eleanor Harriett (Nell) Rivett – Missionary and principal of the Women's Christian College, India^[1]

• Maria Stella de Azevedo Santos [pt] (b. 1925) current ialorixá of the Candomblé Ketu nation of Ilê Axé Opó Afonjá [pt] [3] [4]
• Maria Júlia da Conceição Nazaré [pt] founder of the house of Terreiro of Gantois nation of Candomblé [5]
• Pulchéria Maria da Conceição Nazaré [pt] (d. 1918) second priestess of the house of Terreiro of Gantois nation of Candomblé [6]
• Maria da Glória Nazaré [pt] (d. 1920) successor to Pulchéria, died before assuming office [7]
• Maria Alice Campos Freire, one of the International Council of Thirteen Indigenous Grandmothers
• Clara Shinobu Iura, one of the International Council of Thirteen Indigenous Grandmothers
• Mãe Carmem de Òsàlá [pt] successor to Cleusa Millett and current head of the house of Terreiro of Gantois nation of Candomblé [8], [9]
• Coen Roshi [pt] Buddhist nun. [10]

• Anna Magdalena Schwarzová, Carmelite nun who, in 2011, received the Order of Tomáš Garrigue Masaryk[11] cs:Anna Magdalena Schwarzová
• Jana Šilerová, bishop of Czechoslovak Hussite Church

• Aisha Rafea, co-leader of the Egyptian Society for Spiritual and Cultural Research, Muslim

See also fr:Catégorie:Religieuse française

• Marcelle Baverez fr:Marcelle Baverez
• Mère Benjamin fr:Mère Benjamin
• Anne-Marie Budes de Guébriant fr:Anne-Marie Budes de Guébriant
• Alèthe de Montbard fr:Alèthe (sainte)

• Ursula Cotta, see article in the German Wikipedia: de:Ursula Cotta (c. 1450–1511), influenced Martin Luther's attitude toward women
• Katharina Elizabeth – in 1698, Catholic village leaders of Radibor attempted to have her disciplined for attempted Lutheranization of the population.[12]
• Gertrud Staewen, article in German: de:Gertrud Staewen (1894-1987), supported the cause of Jews in the Confessing Church during the Nazi era.
• Eva von Tiele-Winckler (1866-1930), article in German: de:Eva von Tiele-Winckler, deaconess who founded a deaconess house

• Nana Amba Eyiaba, Queen of the Efutu and the Krontihene, spiritual leader.

• Comfa Religion, a religion where churches are formed by women (though presided over by usually male archbishops) [13], [14], Caution Obeah descends from Nigeria, Comfa from Konga, not necessarily =

• Bhairavi Brahmani, guru of Tantra
• Louise Rathke, missionary who went to India in 1926

• Maria Teresa Fasce (it)
• Maria Margherita Caiani (it)
• Anna Maria Adorni [it]

• Mihoko Ishii, Shinto priest at Suwa Shrine

• Bishop Delrose Lucille Walters aka Bishop Del, founding bishop of the Kingston City Mission.

• Pauline Muchina [15], [16] [17]
• Jacqueline Ogega, [18], [19]

• Julieta Casimiro, one of the International Council of Thirteen Indigenous Grandmothers Her article is a redirect.

• Amara bin Al-Rahman, jurist in the time of Muhammad. [20]
• Fatimah bint Qays, Islamic scholar

• Rose Kara Ninkama [21]

• Nelinda Primavera-Briones, first woman elected as a bishop of the United Church of Christ in the Phillippines

• Aminata Lo, Islamic scholar.'

• Nami Kim, academic in religious studies
• Elisabeth Johanna Shepping

• Francisca Aldea Araujo [it], (1881-1936), [22]
• Ángela de San José [it], martyr during Spanish Revolution
• Ana de San Bartolomeo [it] Carmilite nun
• Maria Rafols Bruna [it], (1791-1853), founder of the Sisters of Charity of St. Anne, beatified in 1994
• Caterina de Cardona [ca], venerable
• Maria Sagrario of Saint Aloysius Gonzaga [fr]/orElvira Moragas Cantarero, (1881=1936), nun
• Marie Pilar de Saint François Borgia [fr] (1877-1936) Carmilite nun
• Maria Mercedes Prat [fr], Carmelite nun.
• Magdalena del Espíritu Santo -- see es:Magdalena del Espíritu Santo, from Wikipedia:Meetup/Aphra Behn Society Editathon
• Teresa Toda i Juncosa [ca], Spanish nun
• Speranza di Gesù Alhama Valera [it], (1893-1983), [23]

• Fahima Hashim, Director of Salmmah Women’s Resource Center in Khartoum [24], [25]

• Sarah Flaxmer (fl. 1790s), religious polemicist.
• Harsha Shukla, Chair, Lancaster and Morecambe Hindu Society; MBE bestowed in 2015 for services to interfaith relations[26]
• Sikh Women's Alliance (SWA), [27]
• Chanda Vyas, born in Kenya, Britain's first female Hindu priest.
• Mary Anne Wilson (missionary), (c.1795 – c.1861), missionary [28] ODNB
• Rachel Wilson (Quaker preacher), (1720–1775) [29] ODNB
• Mrs Dobinson Early methodist preacher
• Mary Clark (Preacher) Early methodist preacher
• Ann Kripp Early methodist preacher
• Sopronia Farrington Early methodist preacher
• Rachel Muers, first woman Chair of Divinity in the University of Edinburgh (oldest chair dating to 1620)

• Mary Hill Davis, Texas Baptist leader in Dallas
• Mina S. Everett, Texas and Mexican Baptist missionary
• Mary T. Gambrell, Baptist leader in Texas
• Deniela T. Williams, reverend and on track to be the first female pastor in the Ohio Baptist State Convention.

• Emila Heller, Buddhist layperson
• Walpola Piyananda, Buddhist

• Rahel Berkovits one of the first two ordained Open Orthodox "rabba"s [30]
• Karyn Gershon, staff of Project Kesher, named one of the Jewish Chicagoans of the year, 2004, interview
• Meesh Hammer-Kossoy one of the first two ordained Open Orthodox "rabba"s [31]
• Suzanne Klingenstein, assistant professor of writing and humanistic studies at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Jewish literary scholar[32]
• Michal Rubin, cantor in the Jewish Renewal tradition
• Erin Leib Smokler (born 1978) Jewish scholar and writer [33] [34] [35]

• Gusta A. Robinette first Methodist woman to be appointed District Supervisor [36], [37]
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• Camille Adams Helminski, founder of Threshold Society, Sufi teacher.
• Shaykha Fariha al Jerrahi, guide for the Nur Ashki Jerrahi Sufi order
• Khalilah Karim-Rushdan, Muslim chaplain at Smith College
• Hasna Maznavi, founder of the first Women's Mosque of America, [38]
• Fazeela Siddiqui, program manager of WISE Muslim Women based in New York.

• Eleanora Figaro, in 1949 became the first black woman to receive the papal honor Pro Ecclesia et Pontifice^[2]
• Chrysostom Moynahan, (1863-1941), Catholic nun, first registered nurse licensed in Alabama, Alabama Women's Hall of Fame
• Catherine Pinkerton, worked as a lobbyist with NETWORK, a Catholic social justice lobby, Ohio Women's Hall of Fame
• Mary F. Rice - catholic educator. Founded the psychology department at College of New Rochelle where she eventaully earned emeritus status. She was also the UN representative for the Federation of Catholic Universities. [39]
• Florence Walter, Mother superior general of the Congregation of Divine Providence, Texas. [40]
• Dolores Rohaley Williams first Catholic nun in the peace corps [41]

• Robyn Blummer CEO of CFI after its merger with Richard Dawkins Foundation
• R. Elisabeth Cornwell, Executive director of the U.S. branch of the Richard Dawkins Foundation for Reason and Science.
• Heina Dadabhoy, former Muslim, current atheist feminist.
• Noelle George, director of operations at Foundation Beyond Belief.
• Tracie Harris (activist), host of The Atheist Experience, disambiguate from Tracie Harris.
• Amanda Metskas, head director of Camp Quest, a secular humanist camp for kids
• Kim Rippere, founder and president of Secular Women.

• Irene M. Auberlin, (1896-1999), missionary, Michigan Women's Hall of Fame
• Jennifer Crumpton, author of Femmevangelical
• Patricia A. Davenport became the first African American woman to be elected a bishop in the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America.^[3]
• Fannie Breedlove Davis president of Woman's Missionary Union in Texas
• Denise Donato was ordained as the first female bishop in the Ecumenical Catholic Communion.^[4]
• Cynthia Drennan (b. 1948), Missionary to El Salvador, Ohio Women's Hall of Fame
• Nancy K. Drew, bishop of the Lutheran Evangeligal Protestant Church (GCEPC)
• Pat Keppler, Harvard Divinity School
• Esther Fleece, former youth outreach for Focus on the Family, One of the new faces of evangelicalism.
• Mildred Hines, bishop in the African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church, African American
• Carolyn Custis James, author, blogger and Christian feminist
• Kathleen Moore Mallory, (1879-1954) Woman's Missionary Union executive, Alabama Women's Hall of Fame
• Brenda Salter McNeil, civil rights, Christian
• Alison Palmer (1931-), Foreign Service Officer, Episcopal priest, “irregularly” ordained in 1975 as part of the “Washington 4”, filed lawsuits for gender discrimination within FSO and church [42][43] (Papers held at Columbia [44]; autobiography Diplomat and Priest[45])
• Edith Livingston Peake, Presbyterian Evangelist
• Kim Phipps, first female president of Christian college, Messiah College
• Elizabeth Powell (church founder), founder of the World Fellowship Interdenominational Church, Ohio Women's Hall of Fame
• Ruth A. Tucker, former Calvin Theological Seminary professor of which she was the first and only full-time woman professor in its 130 year history, writer of Another Gospel.
• Ann Wardley, contributed to the development of the Shakers
• Jacquelin E. Washington, (born 1931), Missionary, Michigan Women's Hall of Fame
• Bonnie Wurzbacher, former senior vice president of Coca-Cola and involved with 4Word Women and Columbia Theological Seminary.
• Lauma Lagzdins Zusevics was ordained as the first woman to serve as a full-time minister for the Latvian Evangelical Lutheran Church in America.^[5]
• Anna Hauge Martinson, 20th century missionary to China for over 40 years[46]

• Mary of the Annunciation Beaumont, Ohio Women's Hall of Fame
• Janice Ann Beran, educator, community and church leader, Iowa Women's Hall of Fame
• Sally G. Bingham, Founder and President of Interfaith Power & Light [47]
• Ann D. Braude, Director, Women’s Studies in Religion Program, Harvard University; author of Sisters and Saints: Women and American Religion
• Tillie Burgin, Missionary and educator from Texas. Texas Women's Hall of Fame.
• Flordemayo, one of the International Council of Thirteen Indigenous Grandmothers
• Ann Grodzins Gold, Department of Religion, author, [48]
• Sylveta Hamilton-Gonzales, was deleted once, but may be notable. A bishop. [49]
• Marie Alford-Harkey, multifaith advocate for sexual health and social justice in faith communities in the US.
• Ann Kansfield, first Lesbian chaplain in New York Fire Department, [50], [51]
• Katherine Marshall (faith development) Fellow Georgetown University/senior advisor for the World Bank on issues of faith [52], [53]
• Sara Miles director of The Food Pantry, San Francisco [54] [55]
• Martha Crystal Myers, (1945-2002), physician, missionary, Alabama Women's Hall of Fame
• Samantha Stein (counselor), head of Camp Quest UK
• Chava Weissler, professor in religious studies department at Lehigh University and author[56]

Many of these are also namesakes for Montes on Venus

• Awenhai, Mohawk/Iroquois fertility goddess
• Bécuma, Celtic dawn goddess; but see first Bé Chuille
• Faravari, Madagascar water goddess
• Gurshi, Buryatian fishing deity
• Gwen (deity), Irish goddess of happiness and smiling
• Innini Babylonian earth mother worshipped at Kish
• Iseghey, Yakutian/Saha goddess of cows
• Katl-Imi, Khanty sun goddess
• Kokyanwuti, Hopi earth goddess, "Spider woman"
• Kshumay Nuristan vegetation goddess
• Ma'l Okyattsik'i, Salt Mother, revered by the Zuni in the United states.
• Mem Loimis, Wintun goddess
• Mokosha, east Slavic goddess
• Muhongo (deity), Mbundu ancestor deity
• Nahas-tsan, Navajo Mother earth
• Nayunuwi, Cherokee stone-clad female monster
• Ne Ngam, Lao World creator
• Nijole, Lithuanian underworld creator
• Ongwuti, Hopi salt-woman deity who predicts seasons
• Rakapila, Malagasy sacred tree deity
• Rhpisunt, Haida Bear mother deity
• Rõugutaja, Estonian goddess of pregnancy
• Sakwap-mana, Hopi maiden of blue corn
• Sephira (deity), Spanish goddess of intelligence and creativity
• Somagalags, Bella Coola earth mother
• Spandarmat, Iranian mother goddess
• Talakin, Navajo goddess
• Toma (deity), Tibetan goddess of intelligence and creativity
• Ts'an Nu, Chinese goddess of silkworms
• Tuli (deity), Samoan goddess of creation
• Tuzandi, Palaun ancestor deity
• Ua-ogrere Kivai New Guinea ancestor deity
• Uretsete Keresan Pueblo ancestor goddess
• Uti Hiata, Pawnee Mother corn deity
• Vostrukha, Belorussian deity of home
• Xtoh, Quiche Guatemala goddess of weather and rain
• Yolkai-Estsan, Navajo deity
• Yunya-mana, Hopi prickly pear cactus maiden
• Zaltu, Assyro Babylonian goddess

• Good Shepherd Convent, Cork, A Magdalene asylum in Cork. [57], [58]

• Woman Church Speaks 1983 conference in Chicago

• Timeline of women in religion

• Roman Catholic saints
• Women in Hinduism
• "50 Powerful Women Religious Leaders..." - Huffington Post