The Deaconess Community of St. Andrew

Sister Joanna Dss.C.S.A.

doi:10.1017/S0022046900062795

The Deaconess Community of St. Andrew

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Sister Joanna Dss.C.S.A.

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The year 1961 witnesses the centenary of the Deaconess Community of St. Andrew, the only Religious Community in the Anglican Church whose full members are both professed Religious and ordained Deaconesses. In 1861, Elizabeth Catherine Ferard, with two like-minded ladies, began to live together under a common rule of life, dedicated to worship and to works of mercy. In July of the following year, the bishop of London ‘set apart’ Miss Ferard as the first deaconess of the English Church. Thus began the Community of Deaconesses, expanding and developing during the ensuing hundred years, but from the beginning maintaining its characteristic two-fold vocation to the Religious Life and to the Order of Deaconesses.

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Information: The Journal of Ecclesiastical History , Volume 12 , Issue 2 , October 1961 , pp. 215 - 230

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^{page 215 note 1} The Community Records consist mainly of Annual Reports 1862–86, Ancilla Domini (embodying annual reports) 1887–1960, Minutes of Council and Chapter Meetings, Printed Papers, Correspondence. They are here cited by CR. Box numbers in the following notes.

^{page 215 note 2} CR 1: Report 1862.

^{page 215 note 3} CR 3: MS. Counterfoil of Bishop of London's Sanction, 18 July 1862.

^{page 215 note 4} The Advisory Council on Religious Communities, Guide to the Religious Communities of the Anglican Communion, London 1955Google Scholar.

^{page 215 note 5} The Advisory Council on Religious Communities, A Directory of the Religious Life, London 1943Google Scholar, 6, 7. (Principles undefined in revised Directory, 1957, but implicit.)

^{page 215 note 6} CR 1: London Diocesan Board of Women's Church Work, letter 9 January 1961.

^{page 215 note 7} Convocations of Canterbury and York 1939–41, ‘Status and Functions of Deaconesses’, Resolution 1.

^{page 216 note 1} CR 1: Rules for the Deaconesses' Institution, 1861.

^{page 216 note 2} CR 7: Report 1869.

^{page 216 note 3} Bodleian Library MS. Rawl. D2.

^{page 216 note 4} Bodleian Library MS. Rawl. 564 No. 27.

^{page 217 note 1} Liddon, H. P., Life of E. B. Pusey, London 1894, iii. 5Google Scholar.

^{page 217 note 2} Ward, W., Life of John Henry Cardinal Newman, London 1913Google Scholar, i. passim. 3 H. P. Liddon, op. cit., 10.

^{page 217 note 3} H. P. Liddon, op. cit., 10

^{page 217 note 4} Ibid., 13.

^{page 217 note 5} Ibid., 14.

^{page 218 note 1} H. P. Liddon, op. cit., 24.

^{page 218 note 2} Ibid., 28.

^{page 218 note 3} Ibid., 26.

^{page 218 note 4} Henry, Lord Bishop of Exeter, A Letter to Miss Sellon, London 20 March 1852. Printed pamphlet in Lambeth Palace Library.

^{page 218 note 5} Williams, T. J., Priscilla Lydia Sellon, London 1950, passimGoogle Scholar.

^{page 218 note 6} A History of the Foundation of the Community of St. Mary the Virgin, Wantage, Oxford 1902Google Scholar.

^{page 218 note 1} Rom. xvi. 1.

^{page 218 note 2} E.g., Epiph., Haer. lxxix. 4.

^{page 218 note 3} E.g., Council of Chalcedon (451), Canon XV.

^{page 218 note 4} Howson, J. S., Deaconesses, London 1862Google Scholar, passim.

^{page 218 note 5} Howson, J. S., ‘Deaconesses’, in Quarterly Review, cviii (1860), 342 ffGoogle Scholar.

^{page 218 note 6} CR 6: Dss. Lucy Collier, MS. ‘Historical Notes’, approx. 1888.

^{page 220 note 1} CR 5: Elizabeth Ferard, MS. ‘Journal of a Residence at Kaiserswerth on the Rhine’.

^{page 220 note 2} CR 5: ibid.

^{page 220 note 3} CR 6: Dss. Collier, op. cit.

^{page 220 note 4} CR 1: Report 1862.

^{page 220 note 5} CR 1: MS. Copy of opening service, St. Andrew's Day, 1861.

^{page 220 note 6} CR 2: MS. Letter from A. C. Tait, bishop of London, 30 October 1861.

^{page 220 note 7} CR 1: lsquo;Rules for the Deaconessses’ Institution, Established in the North of London under the Sanction of the Bishop, to be called the North London Deaconesses' Institution’.

^{page 221 note 1} ‘Order to be used at the time set apart for Private Prayer and Meditation at the North London Deaconesses' Institution’, in Deaconesses, Lambeth Palace Library Misc. papers G 4423/1.

^{page 221 note 2} CR 1: Report 1862.

^{page 221 note 3} CR 7: Report 1863.

^{page 221 note 4} Ibid.

^{page 221 note 5} Ibid.

^{page 222 note 1} CR 7: Report 1865.

^{page 222 note 2} CR7: Report 1871.

^{page 222 note 3} SCR 7: Report 1865.

^{page 222 note 4} CR 1: ‘Information to those who wish to join the Society.’

^{page 222 note 5} Wilberforce, R. G., Life of the Right Reverend Samuel Wilberforce, London 1882, iii. 330Google Scholar.

^{page 222 note 6} Davidson, R. T., Life of Archibald Campbell Tait, London 1891, i. 466Google Scholar.

^{page 222 note 7} CR 1: MS. Resolutions of Meeting, Ely House, 26 February 1867.

^{page 222 note 8} CR 1: Printed Paper, ‘Deaconess Association’, undated.

^{page 222 note 9} Lambeth Palace Library MS. Arch/P Tait, sub. anno 1865.

^{page 223 note 1} CR 7: Report 1864.

^{page 223 note 2} CR 7: Report 1868.

^{page 223 note 3} CR 1: ‘Fundamental Laws of the N.L.D.I.’

^{page 223 note 4} CR 7: Report 1868.

^{page 223 note 5} Kitchin, G. W., Edward Harold Browne, London 1895, 358Google Scholar.

^{page 223 note 6} Ibid., 360

^{page 223 note 7} Ibid., 361.

^{page 223 note 8} CR 1: ‘Deaconesses in the Church of England’, 1871.

^{page 223 note 9} CR 7: Report 1867.

^{page 223 note 10} R. G. Wilberforce, op. cit., iii. 325.

^{page 224 note 1} Benson, A. C., The Life of Edward White Benson, London 1899, ii. 427Google Scholar.

^{page 224 note 2} Dale, H. P., Life and Letters of Pelham Dale, London 1894, i. 277 ffGoogle Scholar.

^{page 224 note 3} CR 9: Lily Magazine.

^{page 224 note 4} CR 5: MS. Minutes, Inner Council Meeting, 6 March 1874.

^{page 224 note 5} CR 7: Report 1873.

^{page 224 note 6} CR 7: Report 1878.

^{page 224 note 7} CR 7: Report 1879.

^{page 224 note 8} CR 7: Report 1880.

^{page 224 note 9} Simpkinson, C. H., Life and Work of Bishop Thorold, London 1896, 171 ffGoogle Scholar.

^{page 224 note 10} CR 1: ‘Authorized Register of Deaconesses in connection with the Church of England,’ Dorking 1883.

^{page 225 note 1} CR 7: Ancilla 1899.

^{page 225 note 2} CR 7: Report 1884.

^{page 225 note 3} CR 7: Ancilla 1893.

^{page 225 note 4} CR 7: Ancilla 1888.

^{page 225 note 5} CR 7: Ancilla 1894.

^{page 225 note 6} CR 1: MS. ‘Heads of a Conversation with the Archbishop’, January 1875.

^{page 225 note 7} CR 1: Arthur Gore, ‘Woman's Work in the Church’, Stoke-upon-Trent, 5 October 1875.

^{page 225 note 8} Sandford, (ed.), Memoirs of Archbishop Temple, London 1906, ii. 43Google Scholar.

^{page 225 note 9} [Louise] Creighton, , Life and Letters of Mandell Creighton, London 1904, ii. 272Google Scholar.

^{page 225 note 10} Lambeth Palace Library MS. Arch/P Davidson, sub anno 1892.

^{page 225 note 11} ‘York Journal of Convocation’, 1885, Appendix, xi ff., in Deaconesses, Lambeth Palace Library Misc. papers G 4423/1.

^{page 226 note 1} A. C. Benson, op. cit., 307.

^{page 226 note 2} ‘Conference on Deaconess Work’, II July 1896, in Deaconesses, Lambeth Palace Library Misc. papers G 4423/1.

^{page 226 note 3} Lambeth Conference 1897. Encyclical Letter, with Resolutions and Reports, 57.

^{page 226 note 4} CR 1: Report of Committee on Religious Communities, London 1902.

^{page 226 note 5} CR 5: MS. Chapter Minutes 1887.

^{page 226 note 6} CR 7: Ancilla 1898.

^{page 226 note 7} CR 5: MS. Chapter Minutes 1903.

^{page 226 note 8} CR 1: Constitution of the L.D.D.I. January 1903.

^{page 227 note 1} CR 5: MS. Chapter Minutes 1904.

^{page 227 note 2} CR 5: MS. Chapter Minutes 1916.

^{page 227 note 3} SCR8: Ancilla 1917.

^{page 227 note 4} CR 5: MS. Chapter Minutes 1917.

^{page 227 note 5} CR 8: Church Assembly Report, C.A. 1292, March 1959.

^{page 227 note 6} CR 5: MS. Chapter Minutes 1919.

^{page 227 note 7} Convocations Canterbury and York 1923–5.

^{page 228 note 1} Convocations Canterbury and York 1939–41, Resolutions, Status and Functions of Deaconesses.

^{page 228 note 2} CR 5: MS. Chapter Minutes 1932.

^{page 228 note 3} Directory of the Religious Life, 5, 6.

^{page 228 note 4} CR 5: MS. Chapter Minutes 1930.

^{page 228 note 5} CR 5: MS. Chapter Minutes 1943.

^{page 228 note 6} CR 6: Introduction to the Rule, 1961.

^{page 228 note 7} CR 7: Report 1877. References in the following three paragraphs from Reports and Ancillae of relevant years cited. (CR 7–9).

^{page 230 note 1} CR 9: Ancilla 1958.

^{page 230 note 2} CR 7: Ancilla 1899.

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