---
title: 'Should a Woman Be Ordained a Deacon?'
type: pdf
hasMedia: true
requiresPurchase: false
authors:
- 'David Burt Willson'
date: 1888-11-01
collection: 'Archives'
subcollection: '19th century'
topics:
- 'Presbyterian Polity'
- 'Ecclesiology (General)'
scriptures:
- 'Romans 16'
- 'Acts 6'
url: https://confessional.org/archives/19th-century/willson-1888-should-a-woman-be-ordained-a-deacon
---

# Should a Woman Be Ordained a Deacon?

1888 lecture defending Synod's approval of ordaining women as deacons, examining New Testament warrant and historical examples of women's roles in Greece, Rome, and India.

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