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Winifred Kiek (née Jackson) was the first woman to be ordained in the Christian Ministry in Australia. She was ordained on June 13, 1927 in South Australia to the Congregational Union of Australia (now the Uniting Church in Australia). ==Personal life== Winifred was born in Manchester, England to John Robert Jackson, a tea salesman, and his wife Margaret, née Harker, who were Quakers Winifred was educated at Urmston Higher Grade School, and at 16 she won a scholarship to Manchester Pupil Teacher Training Centre. In 1904 she entered the Victoria University of Manchester (B.A., 1907) where she won the university prize in logic; she became a schoolteacher. She married Edward Sidney Kiek, a Congregational church minister, on 28 August 1911 at the Chorlton Road Congregational Church, Manchester; they had three children. After World War One, they migrated to Adelaide, South Australia where Edward Kiek became head of Parkin Congregational Theological College (later Parkin-Wesley College and now Uniting College for Leadership and Theology) in 1920.〔Walter Phillips, 'Kiek, Edward Sidney (1883–1959)', Australian Dictionary of Biography, National Centre of Biography, Australian National University, http://adb.anu.edu.au/biography/kiek-edward-sidney-6950/text12069, published first in hardcopy 1983, accessed online 16 September 2015〕 Winifred died at Victor Harbor on 23 May 1975. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Winifred Kiek」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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