laywomen

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He has also named women — laywomen and religious sisters — as consultors to Vatican offices dominated by male clergy, including the one that chooses bishops.

From Seattle Times • Nov. 6, 2022

When Gregory arrived, he made Pehle a full-time administrator, as well as, eventually, 12 other nuns and laywomen who were given the title “parish life coordinators.”

From Washington Post • Apr. 14, 2019

So, theologically speaking, laypeople, including laywomen, can be cardinals.

From The New Yorker • Oct. 28, 2018

In November 1836, Dellile and her friends Juliette Gaudin and Josephine Charles created the Sisters of the Presentation of the Blessed Virgin Mary, for laywomen of color.

From Washington Times • Mar. 25, 2017

Had there been clergywomen, there would have been laywomen.

From Samantha among the Brethren — Volume 7 by Holley, Marietta