[2] The Anglican Group for the Ordination of Women to the Historic Ministry founding vice-presidents were the Bishop of Lichfield John Kempthorne and the Dean of Canterbury Dick Sheppard.
[2] In preparation for the Lambeth Conference of the Anglican Communion's Bishops in the summer of 1930 the Archbishop of Canterbury Cosmo Gordon Lang requested that the church be provided material "which would compel the serious consideration of [the ordination of women] in a manner worthy of its importance" and give means of contact with "women who believe themselves called to the ministry".
[6] The group adopted a resolution for the 1930 Conference: Resolution: That this Council reaffirms its conviction that the full ministry of religion should be open to both sexes, and, further, it urges upon the Archbishops and Bishops of the Established Church of England the importance of dealing with this matter at the forthcoming Lambeth Conference.
For example, the group "conducted two research surveys among its missionaries worldwide to investigate the feasibility of ordaining deaconesses to the priesthood in response to the needs on the mission field."
[6] During the war, on January 25, 1944, Florence Li Tim-Oi was ordained an Anglican priest in China, accomplishing for the first time what the group had been advocating.
[12] After the war of the Anglican Group for the Ordination of Women to the Historic Ministry of the Church held a meeting in 1946.
[1] During the early 1950s, the group engaged in no activity that might begin "a debate on the issue of the ordination of women in the Church of England.
[4] In 1955, the AGOW submitted a report to the church that "recommended that women should be allowed to conduct statutory services (though not communion)."
"[14] The objectives of the AGOW began to be realized in 1960 by "the gradual acceptance of female ordination within the Anglican Communion".
[1] The disbanding of the AGOW came before the Anglican Church of England, that had been its primary objective from which its members came, ordained women.