c. 2006 Religion News Service

(UNDATED) Following are statistics showing the percentage of women clergy across seven denominations:

Assemblies of God **

1988: 15 percent

1996: 15.6 percent

2006: 18.2 percent

Church of the Nazarene

1908: 20 percent

1973: 6 percent

2006: 8.5 percent

Episcopal Church***

1986: 8 percent*

1996: 19 percent*

2006: 30 percent*

Evangelical Lutheran Church in America ****

1995: 14.8 percent

2005: 24 percent

International Church of the Foursquare Gospel

1976: 50 percent*

2006: 36 percent

Presbyterian Church (USA)****

1995: 20 percent

2005: 29 percent

United Methodist Church

1998: 15.8 percent

2005: 22.1 percent

* Estimates

** Figures are for total ministers (including pastors, chaplains, evangelists)

*** Figures are for priests (excludes deacons)

**** Figures are for total active ministers (excludes retired ministers)

Source:

“Clergy Women: An Uphill Calling”; RNS Research

KRE END BANKS Editors: See related stories, RNS-WOMEN-ORDAIN, RNS-WOMEN-VIGNETTES AND RNS-WOMEN-BAPTIST, all transmitted Oct. 11, 2006.