Winifred Kiek

Winifred Kiek
Portrait in 1935 approx
Born
Winifred Jackson

(1884-07-27)27 July 1884 [1]
Manchester, United Kingdom
Died23 May 1975(1975-05-23) (aged 90)
SpouseEdward Sidney Kiek
Children3
ReligionCongregationalist
ChurchCongregational Union of Australia
Ordained13 June 1927

Winifred Kiek (née Jackson; 1884-1975) was the first woman to be ordained in the Christian Ministry in Australia.[2] She was ordained on 13 June 1927 in South Australia to the Congregational Union of Australia (now part of the Uniting Church in Australia).

  1. ^ "Kiek Family Tree". Ancestry.com Library Edition. {{cite web}}: Missing or empty |url= (help)
  2. ^ Phillips, Walter (1983). Kiek, Winifred (1884–1975), Australian Dictionary of Biography. Vol. 9. Canberra: National Centre of Biography, Australian National University. Retrieved 16 September 2015.