Inside the July, the brand new Rev. Bronwen Boswell are appointed Acting Stated Clerk of the Standard System of your own Presbyterian Chapel (You.S.Good.), following the retirement of your own Rev. Dr. J. Herbert Nelson, II.

Whenever questioned by the information provider on their unique the fresh character, Boswell said, “I am humbled and you may excited through this opportunity to serve the new denomination like this. It really is a call, by the COGA [Panel to your Office of your General Set-up] plus the Holy Soul.” Like many Presbyterian women prior to their particular, she has risen up to a situation of management in the faith even though resilience, passion therefore the sophistication regarding God.

The latest naming off Boswell as previously mentioned Clerk echoes almost every other firsts, or any other female management, in Presbyterian records – Louisa Woosley, Margaret Towner, Rachel Henderlite, Katie Grams. Canon and you will Thelma Adair becoming a few just who are involved.

The newest Rev. Louisa Woosley became the initial woman minister from record regarding an enthusiastic Western Presbyterian denomination when she try ordained in 1889 of the their house church inside Kentucky, a person in the fresh Cumberland Presbyterian Chapel (CPC). Even with the full confidence out of their own congregation, Woosley’s ordination was not fully identified by new CPC General Installation.