Religion Archives - Infinite Women

Florence Spearing Randolph

Florence Spearing Randolph (1866-1951) was a minister for the African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church.

Jarena Lee

Jarena Lee was the first known female preacher of the African Methodist Episcopal Church (AMEC).

The first woman ordained as a priest in the Episcopal Church; she piloted a balloon nearly 58,000 feet over Lake Erie in 1934 to study the effects of cosmic rays in the stratosphere. She was the first woman to enter space, and hers was the first successful stratospheric flight made through a layer of clouds with a balloon that remained under control for the entire flight

Augusta Theodosia Drane

Intellectual ‘warrior nun’

Antoinette de Saint-Étienne

First Nations nun who sang for a queen

Maggie Ingram

Matriach of the Legendary Ingramettes, widely considered Richmond, Va.’s “First Family of Gospel,” uplifting audiences for over six decades while becoming beloved cultural icons in the community.

Hattie Addison Burkhalter

The Winnsboro Easter Rock Ensemble, under the direction of Hattie Addison Burkhalter, maintains a rare women-led African American traditional spiritual ritual, rooted in both Christian worship and West African ring shout tradition.

Amma D McKen

McKen has sung traditional sacred Yoruba music since she was 14 and is recognized as a Priestess of Yemonja.

Helen Timmons Henderson

Helen Timmons Henderson served in the Virginia House of Delegates (1924–1925), one of the first two women elected to that body (the other was Norfolk‘s Sarah Lee Fain).