# Elizabeth Awut Ngor

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'''Elizabeth Awut Ngor''' is a South Sudanese [Anglican](/source/Anglican) bishop. She serves as an [assistant bishop](/source/assistant_bishop) in the Diocese of Rumbek of the [Episcopal Church of South Sudan](/source/Episcopal_Church_of_South_Sudan), having been consecrated a bishop on 31 December 2016 by [Daniel Deng Bul](/source/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](/source/Anglican_Communion) that aligns itself with [GAFCON](/source/GAFCON),<ref name="Ink" /> a conservative Anglican movement that [disapproves of homosexuality](/source/Homosexuality_and_the_Anglican_Communion), and supports affirming [traditional Christian beliefs about women](/source/Complementarianism) and [their role in the Church](/source/Ordination_of_women_in_the_Anglican_Communion).

==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](/source/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](/source/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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