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I think that these address the question quite well. Thank you very much.@EZweber
Some articles that may be of assistance:-
Women priests
Why Can’t Women Be Priests #4. Didn’t the early Christians ordain women?
Women and the Priesthood “The following quotations from the Church Fathers indicate that women do play an active role in the Church and that in the age of the Fathers there were orders of virgins, widows, and deaconesses, but that these women were not ordained.”
ORDINATIO SACERDOTALIS OF JOHN PAUL II TO THE BISHOPS OF THE CATHOLIC CHURCH ON RESERVING PRIESTLY ORDINATION TO MEN ALONE
Why historic deaconesses will not translate to modern female deacons does mention that deaconesses did not receive Holy Orders in the early Church.