Nancy Charton Explained

Type:	priest
Nancy Charton
Church:	Anglican
Province:	Southern Africa
Ordination:	1992
Ordained By:	David Russell
Birth Date:	1920
Death Place:	Graaff Reinet

Nancy Charton Ph.D (1920 – 2015) was the first female ordained priest in the Anglican Church of Southern Africa.

Charton was a lecturer and later associate professor in the Department of Politics at Rhodes University. She was also a deacon at St Bartholomew's Church, Grahamstown. In September 1992 she was ordained priest by David Russell in the Grahamstown Cathedral.

Works

• Book: Charton, Nancy . Wilhelm Henry . Meyer. The Calling: The Story of a Pioneering Woman Priest. 2009. Cluster Publications. 978-1-875053-79-7. 0. Pietermaritzburg.
• Charton. Nancy. English‐speaking white elites in South African politics. Politikon. 2. 2. 2007. 115–128. 0258-9346. 10.1080/02589347508704682. 0.
• Charton. Nancy. The Witness of the Church of the Province of Southern Africa. International Review of Mission. 83. 328. 1994. 153–157. 0020-8582. 10.1111/j.1758-6631.1994.tb02355.x. 0.
• Book: Brenda Nicholls. Nancy Charton. Nancy Charton. Mary Knowling. Mary Rae Knowling. The Diary of Robert John Mullins (1833-1913). 1998. Rhodes University, Department of History. Grahamstown.
• Charton. Nancy C J. Black elites in the Transkei . Politikon . 3. 2 . 1976 . 61–74 . 0258-9346 . 10.1080/02589347608704706. 0.
• Book: Charton, Nancy . Nancy Charton. Ciskei: Economics and Politics of Dependence in a South African Homeland. 1980. Croom Helm. 978-0-7099-0332-1. 0.

References

• Book: Meer, Shamim . Women Speak: Reflections on Our Struggles, 1982-1997 . 1998 . Oxfam . 978-0-85598-416-8.
• Book: O'Meara . Emily . Greaves . D.G. . Grahamstown reflected . 1995 . Albany Museum . 978-0-9583206-5-8.
• Book: Romero, Patricia . Profiles in Diversity: Women in the New South Africa . 31 August 1998 . MSU Press . 978-0-87013-948-2.
• McCoy . Michael J. . Equipping the People of God for Christian Witness: An Anglican Account . International Review of Mission . 83 . 328 . 1994 . 45–55 . 0020-8582 . 10.1111/j.1758-6631.1994.tb02338.x .
• Book: Horowitz, Donald L. . A Democratic South Africa?: Constitutional Engineering in a Divided Society . 1991 . University of California Press . 978-0-520-07885-7.
• Web site: The passing of a pioneering priest . Whisson . Michael . . 12 November 2015 . 2015-11-17 .

External links

• A Sermon preached to celebrate twenty years of the Ordination of Women to the Priesthood by the Rev'd Prof. Nancy Charton
• St Bartholomew's Church, Market Street, Grahamstown
• Collected texts at Cory Library