Pillay, Miranda N.06/12/201706/12/20172017Pillay, M.N. (2017). Women, priests and the Anglican Church in Southern Africa: reformation of holy hierarchies. Consensus, 38(1): Art. 102369-2685http://scholars.wlu.ca/consensus/vol38/iss1/10https://hdl.handle.net/10566/3299The Anglican Church in Southern Africa (ACSA) is celebrating the twenty-fifth anniversary of the ordination of women to the priesthood in 2017. The quotation above is a statement made by the South African Council of Churches following the announcement that the Anglican Church in Southern Africa voted in favour of the ordination of women at the church�s September, 1992 Provincial Synod. This was a newsworthy event given the currents of change and rhetoric of freedom in apartheid South Africa. Under the heading �Women priests for SA� the Cape Times (August 15, 1992:2) reports that seventy-nine percent voted in favour of the ordination of women. This result complied with the two-thirds majority required on an issue declared �controversial.�enThis Article is brought to you for free and open access by Scholars Commons @ Laurier.The Anglican Church in Southern Africa (ACSA)WomenPriesthoodOrdinationGenderArticle