Women's ordination
Zoroastrian priests in India are required to be male.
[19] However, women have been ordained in Iran and North America as mobedyars, meaning women
mobeds (Zoroastrian priests).
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In 2011 the Tehran Mobeds Anjuman (Anjoman-e-Mobedan) announced that
for the first time in the history of Iran and of the Zoroastrian
communities worldwide, women had joined the group of mobeds (priests) in
Iran as mobedyars (women priests); the women hold official certificates
and can perform the lower-rung religious functions and can initiate
people into the religion.
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