Florence Li Tim-Oi

Florence Li Tim-Oi ( Chinese  李 添 嬡 ; * May 5, 1907 in Hong Kong ; † February 26, 1992 in Toronto ) was a Hong Kong Chinese who was the first woman to be ordained a priestess of the Anglican Community in 1944 , the priesthood to avoid one However, disputes with the Archbishop of Canterbury were suspended from 1945.

Life

Florence Li Tim-Oi was ordained a priestess on January 25, 1944 through Ronald Owen Hall , the Anglican Bishop of Victoria, Hong Kong and Macau, and was then assigned to the Congregation in Macau during the occupation of southern China by the Imperial Japanese Army where she worked as a deacon .

However, this extraordinary ordination during World War II was overturned by Geoffrey Fisher , Archbishop of Canterbury, in 1945. Bishop Hall refused to suspend Florence Li from duty. To preserve Hall in front of a resignation, however, they left the priesthood rest voluntarily, and was instead a teacher at the Theological Seminary in Guangzhou appointed.

After the ordination of female priests was possible in Hong Kong from 1971, she celebrated her 40th priest anniversary in 1984 at Westminster Abbey in London . Most recently she was active as an assistant priestess in Toronto since 1983.

In 2003 she was recognized as a Saint of the Anglican Communion and her feast is set on January 24th, the day of her ordination. In 2007 the Anglican Community finally recognized her posthumously on the occasion of her 100th birthday.

Publications

• Much Beloved Daughter , 1985, ISBN 978-0-232-51632-6
• Raindrops of my life. Memoirs of the Reverend Florence Li Tim-Oi , Toronto 1996, ISBN 1551-26128-6

Web links and sources

• Publications ( Open Library )
• Chambers Biographical Dictionary , Edinburgh 2002, p. 920, ISBN 0550-10051-2