Elizabeth Jane Via, IHM, is a California lawyer who was born in St. Louis, MO in 1947.
As of November 2019, over one hundred and forty women have been ordained in the Roman Catholic Womenpriests (RCWP) movement worldwide.
RCWP is not sanctioned by the Roman Catholic Church, which considers ordination of women a violation of its canon law 1024[1] and invalid.
[2][3] She was ordained in 2004 as a Deacon in the RCWP on the Danube River,[4] then as a womanpriest in 2006 aboard a boat in international waters between Austria, Germany and Switzerland.
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