I know of some of these women but thanks for the rest & the book suggestion.  

Women were also presbyters which is a priest in the beginning because there were no ordained priests in the starting church.  Even the Apostles did not claim ever to be a part of some unique priesthood outside of the Royal Priesthood everyone was considered to be a part.  Priestly ordination was not even made mandatory for priests up until the 1300s.  That is largely because presbyters-both male & female could sometimes not manage during their entire lives to be able to reach any bishops-travel was far more harrowing back then & not being officially ordained did not hinder priests in the presiding over of any sacraments.  Unfortunately, we have become more sexist not less since the 300s AD even.  There were likely many ordained women priests & there is even some good likelihood St. Joan was an actual pope & real person but our church destroyed much of its early documents to try to erase this history.