The moment
In wartime, on 25 January 1944, Bishop Ronald Hall of Hong Kong ordained Li Tim-Oi as a priest at Zhaoqing in Guangdong, the first woman priest in the Anglican Communion. Under pressure from Canterbury she gave up her licence in 1946, stayed in China through the Maoist years, and died in Toronto in 1992. Sally Priesand became the first woman rabbi ordained by a seminary in 1972; the Church of England voted for women priests in November 1992, ordained the first 32 at Bristol in March 1994, and consecrated Libby Lane as its first woman bishop in January 2015.
People: Florence Li Tim-Oi, Ronald Hall, Sally Priesand, Libby Lane