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Article: UNITED KINGDOM: ROYAL NAVY'S FIRST FEMALE CHAPLAIN RETIRES
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- US Fed News Service, Including US State News
- Article date:
- August 1, 2006
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The government of United Kingdom's Ministry of Defence's Royal Navy issued the following news release:
The Royal Navy's first female Chaplain has retired after a 16 year career which has seen her providing pastoral care to sailors both in peacetime and in times of conflict.
The Reverend Caroline Eglin joined the Royal Navy in September 1990. Before she retired Rev. Eglin was a member of the Chaplaincy team at HMS Raleigh where the pastoral care of the Royal Navy's new recruits was just one of her many responsibilities.
Ordained as a Baptist Minister in 1985, her first ecclesiastical appointment was as the Minister of a church in Leicester. She was attracted to the Royal Navy by the ...