Women may be full of love and emotion, and if they devote their love and emotion to Christ they can be very helpful. But in spite of this we cannot find in the whole Bible one single example of a woman being a priest. Perhaps God called women for other responsibilities. Priesthood is a Divine call and it is quite obvious in the Holy Bible that women were called for many, many responsibilities, but not for priesthood. The first priesthood was the priesthood of the great patriarchs of the church: Father Abraham, Father Noah, Father Isaac, Father Jacob. All these were men. The second kind of priesthood was the priesthood of Melchizedek, who was mentioned in Genesis, chapter 14, and in Hebrews chapter 7, and the priesthood of Aaron and his sons. All of them were men. There was not a single woman priest in all of the Old Testament. If God had wanted it, all right. Who can prevent God? The firstborn children who were sanctified to God before choosing the priesthood of Moses, Aaron and the sons of Aaron- were all men. When the Lord Jesus Christ chose the twelve Apostles to be the first priests or archpriests, or the first bishops or ecumenical bishops, they were all men. And the first bishops consecrated by them were also men.
Body of our Lord has its dignity, its respect, its work, its importance. We cannot say that all members may be heads, all may be eyes, may be arms, may be hearts! We cannot say this. If a woman is not called to be the head, perhaps she is called to be the heart, and no difference. Every member has its own work in the Church, and this also is what was said by the Apostle when he was speaking about the gifts of the Holy Spirit. We may read the First Epistle to the Corinthians, chapter 12: "But now indeed there are many members, yet one body. And God has appointed these in the church: first apostles, second prophets, third teachers, after that miracles, then gifts of hearings, helps, administrations, varieties of tongues. Are all apostles? Are all prophets? Are all teachers? Are all workers of miracles? Do all have gifts of hearings?" (1Cor. 12: 20, 28-30). But God gave every member its own work. Men and women cannot be rivals in a certain responsibility. Women can perform many duties which are useful in the church, but they were not called for priesthood.