August 11, 1988

Lambeth Conference Affirms Worldwide Communion

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Episcopal News Service

[The first and second Angl...]
The first and second Anglican women priests. Li Tim Oi (her westernized name is Florence Li), right, ordained a priest in 1944 in China, and Joyce Bennett, ordained in 1970 in Hong Kong. Li and Bennett were addressing the Women's Witnessing Community in Canterbury during the 1988 Lambeth Conference. Li, at age 80, is now Honorary Assistant at St. Matthew's & St. John's Church, Toronto, Canada, and Bennett is chaplain to the Chinese congregation at St. Martin-in-the-Fields, London, England. Photo credit: Richard Henshaw, Jr.