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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External links A Sermon preached to celebrate twenty years of the Ordination of Women to the Priesthood by the Rev'd Prof. Nancy Charton St Bartholomew's Church, Market Street, Grahamstown Collected texts at Cory Library