About Nancy Charton
Lived 1920 – 2015 (aged 94–95). Nancy Charton was an academic.
Nancy Charton Ph.D. (1920 – 2015) was the first female ordained priest in the Anglican Church of Southern Africa.
Charton was a lecturer and later associate professor in the Department of Politics at Rhodes University. She was also a deacon at St Bartholomew's Church, Grahamstown. In September 1992 she was ordained priest by David Russell in the Grahamstown Cathedral.
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Who was Nancy Charton?
first female priest in the Anglican Church of Southern Africa
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Nancy Charton was born in 1920.
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Nancy Charton died in 2015 in Graaff-Reinet.
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Nancy Charton was an academic.
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