Wow, did anyone know of a church ever rescinding the practice of women priests, once they had adopted it?... I'd never heard such a thing, it always goes one way, irrevocable... and yet these Lutherans have done it, and now the ACNA is meeting with them https://anglican.ink/2022/01/29/acna-and-elcl-leaders-meet-in-dallas/ "On 29 January 2022 the Most Rev. Foley Beach welcomed the Most Rev.Jānis Vanags, Archbishop of Riga and Primate of the Evangelical Lutheran Church of Latvia. Details of the meeting have yet to be released, however,the ELCL is viewed as the most traditional minded of the Baltic Lutheran churches." ... "In 1975 the church voted to permit women ministers, but at its 3 June 2015 meeting, Archbishop Vanags asked the church’s general synod, the Latvijas Evaņģēliski luteriskās baznīcas, to reconsider the question of women priests. While he did not speak during the debate, Archbishop Vanags, who was elected in 1993, has long argued there was no warrant in Scripture for women priests and that it was foreign to the church’s traditions. Synod amended the ordination canons from: “anyone who according to the regulations set by the [church] is called by God and trained for ministry can seek ordination” to “any male candidate who according to the regulations set by the [church] is called by God and trained for the ministry can seek ordination.”"
I can tell you what they did with the female clergy. They left them in their postings. There will be no more but they are letting the existing group age out. This is one of the things where the Continuing churches have certain expectations that ACNA probably won't meet. The Continuing churches mostly expect them all to be defrocked or laicized.
What are your sources on this? I think it is incorrect from what I have read various news websites, while they did not defrock them they moved them out of parish ministry… Thus in the active and visible positions in the Church the change was rather stark, and the lady ministers aged out in various other posts like perhaps hospice ministry and places like that
This is the main suggestion of "No Other Foundation" a collection of anti-WO essays popular in the ACNA and distributed to ACNA seminarians (I presume only the males) by the Seabury Society.
5 year old pressers and some second hand news from some Slovak Lutherans. I am willing to yield the point. Your information may be better. Whatever the case, they didn't defrock them.