"The place of women in the Orthodox Church and the question of the ordination of women"

This article examines the place of women in the Orthodox Church and the question of female ordination to the sacramental priesthood. Drawing on theological and ecclesiological study, it mobilizes patristic, scriptural, and liturgical sources to articulate a coherent doctrinal position. The central idea is that the exclusion of women from the specific priesthood does not stem from ontological inferiority, but from a typological distinction grounded in the Adam-Christ and Eve-Mary relationships, with the Theotokos constituting the model of feminine ministry in the economy of salvation. The article offers a twofold perspective: on the one hand, it theologically anchors the impossibility of the sacerdotal ordination of women in the unbroken tradition of the Church; on the other hand, it advocates for greater participation of women in ecclesial life, notably through the restoration of the order of deaconesses and access to minor orders.