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Marita MUNRO
Born: 1955
Special Achievements:Marita Munro was the Baptist Church's first woman minister when ordained in Victoria in 1978.
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MELBOURNE: Miss Marita Munro, 23, became the first woman Baptist minister in Australia, when she was ordained at the Collins Street Baptist Church yesterday, four years after she decided to apply for the ministry. She said she had had "no trouble" being accepted.
Trove: Canberra Times (ACT: 1926 - 1995), Monday 2 October 1978, page 3