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Florence Li Tim-Oi (5 May 1907; Hong Kong – 26 February 1992; Toronto) was the first female priest to be ordained in the Anglican Communion. Already appointed as a deacon to serve in the colony of Macao, she was ordained priest on 25 January 1944 by the bishop of Hong Kong, in response to the crisis among Anglican Christians in China caused by the Japanese invasion. Since it was to be thirty years before any Anglican church regularized the ordination of women, her ordination was controversial, and she resigned her licence (though not her priestly orders) after the end of the war. She was appointed an honorary (nonstipendiary) assistant priest in Toronto in 1983 and formally reinstated as a priest the following year.
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