Mizoram Synod rejects proposal to ordain women theologians

The 91st conference of Mizoram Synod, the highest decision making body of the Presbyterian Church, today rejected the proposal to ordain women theologians.
The Synod conference, held at the local Presbyterian church of Mission since Tuesday, deliberated on different agenda including the issue of ordination of women theologians.
The decision came even as 'Kohhran Hmechhia' or the Women Ministry of the Presbyterian Church demanded to ordain women theologians.
Majority of the delegates of the Synod conference opined that even if it was agreed to ordain women, the whole Mizo society might not be ready to accept women theologians and priests.

More than 40 years ago, the Mizoram Synod had rejected the ordination of Saptawni, the first woman ever to be elected by the church members as church elder and no woman have ever been elected as church elder since then.
The Baptist Church of Mizoram, the second largest church in the state next only to the Presbyterian Church, has already agreed to ordain women theologians and Dr R L Hnuni, then Principal of the Academy of Integrated Christian Studies in Aizawl, was ordained in 2012.
Hnuni, however, did not have her own pastoral till her pension.
The Baptist Church has also ordained a number of women as church elders.