{{short description|South Sudanese Anglican bishop|bot=PearBOT 5}} '''Elizabeth Awut Ngor''' is a South Sudanese Anglican bishop. She serves as an assistant bishop in the Diocese of Rumbek of the Episcopal Church of South Sudan, having been consecrated a bishop on 31 December 2016 by Daniel Deng Bul, Archbishop of Juba.<ref name="Ink">{{cite web|title=First woman bishop for GAFCON province|url=http://anglican.ink/article/first-woman-bishop-gafcon-province|first=George|last=Conger|website=Anglican Ink|access-date=4 February 2018|date=3 February 2018|archive-date=5 February 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180205000746/http://www.anglican.ink/article/first-woman-bishop-gafcon-province|url-status=dead}}</ref><ref name="CRN">{{cite web|title=First female ECSSS Bishop consecrated in Rumbek Diocese|url=http://www.catholicradionetwork.org/?q=node/22683|website=Catholic Radio Network|access-date=4 February 2018|date=2 January 2017}}</ref> She is the first woman to become a bishop in a province of the Anglican Communion that aligns itself with GAFCON,<ref name="Ink" /> a conservative Anglican movement that disapproves of homosexuality, and supports affirming traditional Christian beliefs about women and their role in the Church.
==Controversy== Awut Ngor's consecration as a bishop had not be publicly announced until the retirement of Deng in January 2018.<ref name="Ink" /><ref name="CRN" /> Her consecration was, however, not secret, and she has attended the South Sudan House of Bishops and been listed in the prayer requests of her diocese's sister diocese (the Diocese of Salisbury in the Church of England).<ref name="Ink" /><ref>{{cite web|title=DIOCESAN CYCLE OF PRAYER: September – November 2017|url=http://www.salisbury.anglican.org/resources-library/worship/prayer/Sept%20-%20Nov%202017%20Cycle%20of%20Prayer.pdf|website=Diocese of Salisbury|access-date=4 February 2018|date=2017|archive-date=5 February 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180205001100/http://www.salisbury.anglican.org/resources-library/worship/prayer/Sept%20-%20Nov%202017%20Cycle%20of%20Prayer.pdf|url-status=dead}}</ref>
Her consecration has been controversial. During a meeting of GAFCON primates in 2014, they agreed not to consecrate women as bishops until a task force into the matter had completed their report.<ref name="GAFCON Statement">{{cite web|last1=Jensen|first1=Peter|title=A Statement on the Consecration of a Female Bishop in South Sudan|url=https://www.gafcon.org/news/a-statement-on-the-consecration-of-a-female-bishop-in-south-sudan|website=GAFCON|access-date=14 February 2018|date=8 February 2018}}</ref> Deng had not attended at this meeting of primates.<ref name="GAFCON Statement" /> The task force was authorised in April 2015 and titled "Task Force on Women in the Episcopate".<ref name="GAFCON Report" /> It reported in April 2017, and their recommendation was to continue to consecrate only men as bishops for the present time.<ref name="GAFCON Report">{{cite web|title=A Report on the GAFCON Task Force on Women in the Episcopate|url=https://www.gafcon.org/resources/a-report-on-the-gafcon-task-force-on-women-in-the-episcopate|website=GAFCON|access-date=14 February 2018|date=18 September 2017}}</ref> This conclusion was accepted by the GAFCON primates.<ref name="GAFCON Statement" /><ref name="GAFCON Report" /> However, the Anglican Church of Kenya would later depart from this moratorium and consecrate two women as bishops in 2021.<ref>{{Cite web |date=2021-08-06 |title=Anglican Church in Kenya appoints first two women bishops |url=https://episcopalnewsservice.org/2021/08/06/89000/ |access-date=2025-10-14 |website=Episcopal News Service |language=en-US}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |last=Masai |first=Jesse |date=2021-08-02 |title=Kenya Elects First Female Diocesan Bishop |url=https://livingchurch.org/news/kenya-elects-first-female-diocesan-bishop/ |access-date=2025-10-14 |website=The Living Church |language=en-US}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |date=2025-10-03 |title=Sarah Mullally: Choice of new Archbishop of Canterbury met "with sorrow" by conservative group Gafcon |url=https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c179yvn08njo |access-date=2025-10-14 |website=www.bbc.com |language=en-GB}}</ref>
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