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Cheek, Alison M

LC control no.no2017011528
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Personal name headingCheek, Alison M.
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Associated countryUnited States
Associated placeVirginia
Birth date1927-04-11
Death date2019-09-01
Place of birthAdelaide (S.A.)
Place of deathBrevard (N.C.)
AffiliationEpiscopal Church
Profession or occupationPriests
Found inCheek, Alison M. Toward a feminist biblical imagination, 1990 (Alison M. Cheek)
Wikipedia, 3 Nov. 2016 (Alison Cheek; Alison Mary Cheek; b. 11 Apr. 1927 in Adelaide, South Australia; graduated from University of Adelaide in 1947; moved to United States in 1957; completed degree from Virginia Theological Seminary; ordained first woman deacon in the South, in the Diocese of Virginia in 1972; ordained priest as one of the Philadelpha Eleven on July 29, 1974; became first woman to celebrate the Eucharist in an Episcopal Church, in defiance of the diocesan bishop; earned D.Min. in 1990 from the Episcopal Divinity School in Cambridge, MA where she served as Director of Feminist Liberation Studies)
Wikipedia, 3 Mar. 2020 (Alison Cheek; d. 1 Sep. 2019 in Brevard, NC)
Associated languageeng