While I agree that there is overwhelming theological rationale for ordaining women deacons, priests, and bishops immediately, I must say I am unaware of unambiguous evidence in our past of women  ordained as bishops or priests (tantalizing tidbits of the possibility, to be sure, but nothing definitive). I do agree there is overwhelming evidence of women ordained as deacons, above all Byzantine evidence, but that is another matter. And even with that diaconal evidence, the fact that women deacons had ministries different from male deacons, and the fact that the evidence is Byzantine, have provided finger holds for deniers prejudiced against women and/or Orthodoxy.

Please point me in the direction of the "evidence and research" sufficient "to sink a battleship" re episcopal and priestly ordination of women. I am a voracious consumer of such things.