Mary Ramerman
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Mary Ramerman is one of the founders of the Spiritus Christi sect in Rochester, New York. Ramerman, a Californian and convert to Catholicism ,wished to become a Catholic priest, was encouraged by Fr. James Callan, who had been appointed as pastor of the Corpus Christi parish in Rochester, New York to migrate to his parish so that he ordain her.
[edit] Excommunication
After several years of controversy the bishop transferred Callan in order to bring the parish back into line. The community then secceeded from the Roman Catholic Church under the leadership of Ramerman and others, and Callan shortly joined them. Soon after, the community invited Old Catholic bishop from California to ordain Mrs. Ramerman and other women pastors of the sect in Rochester. Both ms. Ramerman and Fr. Callan were declared to have excommunicated themselves (excommunication latae sententiae) by the Bishop.
[edit] References
Bonavoglia, Angela (2005). "One Woman Who Refused to Wait: The Ordination of Mary Ramerman", pp. 239-56, Good Catholic Girls: How Women are Leading the Fight to Change the Church, (published in New York City by Regan Books/HarperCollins).
