On Palm Sunday, 10 April 1960, she became one of the first three female priests in Sweden when she was ordained by Archbishop Gunnar Hultgren in the Saint Catherine Foundation chapel at Österskär near Stockholm.

[5] After matriculating from the Wallinska skolan in Stockholm when only 17, she studied at Uppsala University where she graduated in romance languages, earning a doctorate in 1940.

[1] While still at university, she attracted considerable attention when she published an article in the Christian journal Vår Lösen calling for the ordination of women.

In 1948, she became active in the Women's Church Council which led to the founding of Saint Catherine's Foundation (S:ta Katharinastiftelsen).

[6] Margit Sahlin retired in 1979 but remained active in the Saint Catherine Foundation until her death in Stockholm on 1 March 2003.