text: Since the issue of women as deacons or priests came up about 3+ years ago, I have cited extensively on this website HARD, DOCUMENTED evidence by noted and world renowned Church historians----the names of persons or situations demonstrating that women, were indeed deacons, priests and even bishops or who acted in the position of bishops.  I have done this at least SEVEN times.
  
  This was documented work done in a number of countries, by a number of people, recorded over the centuries.  I cited the work done by the great Benedictine historian Jean Leclercq.  In addition, evidence of the authority of Benedictine abbesses was written and recorded in the oldest library in Central Europe at Stift Melk on the Danube about 20 miles south of Vienna.  Other pertinent documents were stored in the Archives at St. Stephen's Cathedral in Vienna.  [Continued]