text: Cite your research on this [no woman has ever been ordained to the Catholic priesthood].  
  
   St. Brigid of Ireland was ordained a bishop [she already was ordained a priest, as an abbess of the Benedictine community].
  
  We have the letter from Pope Gelasius [in 494], written to the bishops of southern Italy and Sicily---stating that they were no longer to ordain women as priests.  Italian scholar Giorgio Otranto cites him, "Note sul sacerdozio femminile nell'antichita in margine a una testimonianza di Gelasio I." Vetera Christianorum 19 [1982]: 341-60.
  
  You stated that "the Church has no authority from Christ to ordain women..."  The Church has NO AUTHORITY to ordain men either.  Jesus did not just have 12 Apostles.  He had 72 Disciples ---men and women.  The
  inner circle of the Twelve were ONLY called Apostles when they went on missions to preach [sent out by Christ].  There is NO EVIDENCE in any Gospel or the Acts of the Apostles that Christ ordained the Twelve as priests.