Religion Archives - Infinite Women

Clara Lucil Johnson

One of the first African American female ministers in Cleveland and the founder of Highlight FBH “Fire Baptized Holiness” Church in the 1950s

Mary Ellen Czelusinak

Deaf woman who ministered to the Catholic hearing impaired community of Cleveland.

Mother Mary Xavier Mehegan (1825-1915) emigrated from Ireland to New York in 1842. She made her profession of vows in 1847 as Sister Mary Xavier and spent the next twelve years as a Sister of Charity in New York.

Shirley Caesar

The “First Lady of Gospel,” she has received 10 Grammy Awards, 12 Stellar Awards, and 17 Dove Awards, but her commitment to her church remains paramount. Of her call to the ministry, she said, “I am called to be a preacher-evangelist first, and a singer second.”

Sue Yeon Park

Sue Yeon Park has been given the honorific titles of yisuja for achieving the highest level of mastery of the salpuri-chum (Shaman ritual dance) and jeonsuja for the preservation of seungmu (Buddhist ritual dance) by the Ministry of Culture of South Korea.

Leila Waddell

Australian violinist, philosopher of magic and fearless rebel

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).

Jeannette Ridlon Piccard

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’