text: You certainly do not know what I have studied or with whom I have been in communication.  
  
  Have you read "The Ordination of Women" by Jan Voerman?  
  "Research shows that women were ordained only as deaconesses.  The church historian, Joseph Bingham, explains” “Yet we are not to imagine, that this consecration gave them any power to execute any part of the sacerdotal office, or do the duties of the sacred function” (Bingham, Origines Ecclesiasticae, or the Antiquities of the Christian Church and other Work, vol. 1, p 254).  … He adds: “Women were always forbidden to perform any such offices as those.  Therefore the author of the Constitutions calls it a heathenish practice to ordain women priests,….for the Christian law allowed no such custom.  Some heretics, indeed, as Tertullian (Constit. Apost. Lib. Iii, c. 9) observes, allowed women to teach and exercise and administer baptism; but all this, he says, was against the rule (Tertul. De Praescript. C. 41) of the Apostles” (Ibid)."