Women have played various amount of roles in the Christian Church. Until recently, they have always been generally excluded from clerical positions within the Christian churches. However, many women have been very influential in the life of the Church through the roles they fill. These roles would be: theologians, doctors of the Church, missionaries, abbesses, nuns, mystics, founders of religious institutes, military leaders, monarchs, and martyrs. Christianity derived from societies that placed men in positions of authority in marriage, society, and priesthood. Though women are restricted in these areas, they still continue to be a huge contribution not only to the Catholic Church, but the whole world as well.
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