Elizabeth Ferard

Elizabeth Catherine Ferard
Elizabeth Catherine Ferard
	Elizabeth Catherine Ferard, first deaconess of the Church of England
Deaconess, 1862
Born	22 February 1825; Bloomsbury, London
Died	18 April 1883; St Pancras, London
Venerated in	Anglican Communion
Feast	18 July

Elizabeth Catherine Ferard (22 February 1825 – 18 April 1883) was a deaconess credited with revitalising the deaconess order in the Anglican Communion.^[1] She is now remembered in the Calendar of saints in some parts of the Anglican Communion on either 3 or 18 July.^[2]

^ Briggs, Emilie G. (June 1913). "The Restoration of the Order of Deaconesses". The Biblical World. 41 (6). The University of Chicago Press: 384. doi:10.1086/474809. S2CID 143707762.
^ "The Deaconesses of the Church in Modern Times, compiled by Lawson Carter Rich (1907)". anglicanhistory.org. Retrieved 14 July 2012.

[1] Briggs, Emilie G. (June 1913). "The Restoration of the Order of Deaconesses". The Biblical World. 41 (6). The University of Chicago Press: 384. doi:10.1086/474809. S2CID 143707762.

[2] "The Deaconesses of the Church in Modern Times, compiled by Lawson Carter Rich (1907)". anglicanhistory.org. Retrieved 14 July 2012.

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