Atto of Vercelli on Female Priests/Elders in the Early Church
Neither Chrysostom, bishop of Constantinople in the early 400s, or Atto, bishop of Vercelli in the 900s, were feminists swayed by an egalitarian culture, and neither were known for being politically correct. Yet Chrysostom saw in the New Testament that women were church leaders, and Atto saw in church tradition that women had been church leaders. And both seemed to have thought women leaders were a good thing.
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