Olive Winchester

Deceased Person

1879 – 1947

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Who was Olive Winchester?

Olive May Winchester was an American ordained minister and a pioneer biblical scholar and theologian in the Church of the Nazarene, who was in 1912 the first woman ordained by any trinitarian Christian denomination in the United Kingdom, the first woman admitted into and graduated from the Bachelor of Divinity course at the University of Glasgow, and the first woman to complete a Doctor of Theology degree from the divinity school of Drew University.

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Born
Nov 22, 1879
Monson
Nationality
  • United States of America
Education
  • University of Glasgow
Died
Feb 15, 1947
Pasadena

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on July 23, 2013

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