Nancy Charton

Nancy Charton Ph.D (1920 – 2015) was the first female ordained priest in the Anglican Church of Southern Africa.[1][2][3][4][5]

Nancy Charton
Church	Anglican
Province	Southern Africa
Orders
Ordination	1992 by David Russell
Personal details
Died	11 November 2015 (aged 95) Graaff Reinet

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.

Works

• Meyer, Wilhelm Henry, ed. (2009). The Calling: The Story of a Pioneering Woman Priest. Pietermaritzburg: Cluster Publications. ISBN 978-1-875053-79-7.CS1 maint: ref=harv (link)
• "English‐speaking white elites in South African politics". Politikon. 2 (2): 115–128. 2007. doi:10.1080/02589347508704682. ISSN 0258-9346.
• "THE WITNESS OF THE CHURCH OF THE PROVINCE OF SOUTHERN AFRICA". International Review of Mission. 83 (328): 153–157. 1994. doi:10.1111/j.1758-6631.1994.tb02355.x. ISSN 0020-8582.
• Brenda Nicholls; Nancy Charton; Mary Knowling (1998). The Diary of Robert John Mullins (1833-1913). Grahamstown: Rhodes University, Department of History.
• "Black elites in the Transkei". Politikon. 3 (2): 61–74. 1976. doi:10.1080/02589347608704706. ISSN 0258-9346.
• Ciskei: Economics and Politics of Dependence in a South African Homeland. Croom Helm. 1980. ISBN 978-0-7099-0332-1.CS1 maint: ref=harv (link)

References

1. Meer 1998, p. 107.
2. O'Meara 1995, p. 36. sfn error: no target: CITEREFO'Meara1995 (help)
3. Romero 1998, p. 83.
4. McCoy 1994.
5. Horowitz 1991, p. 75.

• Meer, Shamim (1998). Women Speak: Reflections on Our Struggles, 1982-1997. Oxfam. ISBN 978-0-85598-416-8.CS1 maint: ref=harv (link)
• O'Meara, Emily; Greaves, D.G. (1995). Grahamstown reflected. Albany Museum. ISBN 978-0-9583206-5-8.CS1 maint: ref=harv (link)
• Romero, Patricia (31 August 1998). Profiles in Diversity: Women in the New South Africa. MSU Press. ISBN 978-0-87013-948-2.CS1 maint: ref=harv (link)
• McCoy, Michael J. (1994). "EQUIPPING THE PEOPLE OF GOD FOR CHRISTIAN WITNESS: AN ANGLICAN ACCOUNT". International Review of Mission. 83 (328): 45–55. doi:10.1111/j.1758-6631.1994.tb02338.x. ISSN 0020-8582.CS1 maint: ref=harv (link)
• Horowitz, Donald L. (1991). A Democratic South Africa?: Constitutional Engineering in a Divided Society. University of California Press. ISBN 978-0-520-07885-7.CS1 maint: ref=harv (link)
• Whisson, Michael (12 November 2015). "The passing of a pioneering priest". Grocott's Mail. Retrieved 2015-11-17.CS1 maint: ref=harv (link)

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