WOMEN IN MINISTRY, VOLUME TWENTY-SIX
The Historic Attempt to Silence the Feminine Voice in the Church
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Under an arch in a Roman Basilica is a mosaic portraying four female characters: two female saints, Mary (the mother of Jesus), and a fourth woman. An inscription identifies the fourth woman as Theodora Episcopa. The masculine form for Bishop in Latin is episcopus; the feminine form is episcopa. Both the mosaic’s visual and grammatical […]