Li Tim-Oi

Florence Li Tim - Oi (Chinese李 添 嫒; born May 5, 1907 in Hong Kong, † February 26, 1992 in Toronto ) was a Hong Kong Chinese, the first woman received in 1944 the ordination to the priest of the Anglican Communion, the priesthood to avoid dispute with the Archbishop of Canterbury but rested as early as 1945.

Life

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

This extraordinary ordination during the Second World War, however, was repealed by Geoffrey Fisher, Archbishop of Canterbury, 1945. Bishop Hall refused to suspend Florence Li from the service. In order to preserve Hall in front of a resignation, however, they rested the priesthood voluntarily, and was appointed instead as a teacher at the Theological Seminary in Guangzhou.

After starting 1971 in Hong Kong, the ordination of women priests was possible she could in 1984 celebrating its fortieth anniversary as a priest at Westminster Abbey in London. Most recently, she worked as an assistant priest in Toronto since 1983.

In 2003, she was recognized as a saint of the Anglican Communion, and her feast on 24 January, set the day of their priestly ordination. 2007 recognized the Anglican Communion finally posthumously on the occasion of her hundredth birthday.

Publications

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

External links and sources

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

• Anglican cleric ( 20th century)
• Saint (Christianity)
• Chinese
• Born 1907
• Died in 1992
• Woman