BEHR-SIGEL, ELISABETH

BEHR-SIGEL, ELISABETH, theologian (1907– ). This French Orthodox theologian lectures at the St. Sergius Orthodox Theological Institute (q.v.) and at the Catholic Institute, both in Paris. Baptized in the Lutheran tradition, she later became Orthodox. She has been active in ecumenical (q.v.) encounter, particularly from the late 1970s to the early 1980s in the World Council of Church’s study of the Community of Men and Women in the Church. She has published The Ministry of Women in the Church (Eng. trans. 1991).