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Elizabeth Catherine Ferard | |
|---|---|
 Elizabeth Catherine Ferard, first deaconess of the Church of England | |
| Deaconess, 1862 | |
| Born | 22 February 1825 Bloomsbury, London |
| Died | 18 April 1883 St Pancras, London |
| Venerated in | Anglican Communion |
| Feast | 18 July |
Elizabeth Catherine Ferard (22 February 1825 – 18 April 1883) was a deaconess credited with revitalising the deaconess order in the Anglican Communion.[1] She is now remembered in the Calendar of saints in some parts of the Anglican Communion on either 3 or 18 July.[2]
- ^ Briggs, Emilie G. (June 1913). "The Restoration of the Order of Deaconesses". The Biblical World. 41 (6). The University of Chicago Press: 384. doi:10.1086/474809. S2CID 143707762.
- ^ "The Deaconesses of the Church in Modern Times, compiled by Lawson Carter Rich (1907)". anglicanhistory.org. Retrieved 14 July 2012.