c. 2006 Religion News Service
(UNDATED) Following are statistics showing the percentage of women clergy across seven denominations:
Assemblies of God **
1988: 15 percent
1996: 15.6 percent
2006: 18.2 percent
Church of the Nazarene
1908: 20 percent
1973: 6 percent
2006: 8.5 percent
Episcopal Church***
1986: 8 percent*
1996: 19 percent*
2006: 30 percent*
Evangelical Lutheran Church in America ****
1995: 14.8 percent
2005: 24 percent
International Church of the Foursquare Gospel
1976: 50 percent*
2006: 36 percent
Presbyterian Church (USA)****
1995: 20 percent
2005: 29 percent
United Methodist Church
1998: 15.8 percent
2005: 22.1 percent
* Estimates
** Figures are for total ministers (including pastors, chaplains, evangelists)
*** Figures are for priests (excludes deacons)
**** Figures are for total active ministers (excludes retired ministers)
Source:
“Clergy Women: An Uphill Calling”; RNS Research
KRE END BANKS Editors: See related stories, RNS-WOMEN-ORDAIN, RNS-WOMEN-VIGNETTES AND RNS-WOMEN-BAPTIST, all transmitted Oct. 11, 2006.