(1) His consecration took place at an ice hockey stadium in Durham, New Hampshire, and he wore a bulletproof vest under his gold vestments because he had received death threats.
(2) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Wagner saw it not as an opera but as "ein Bühnenweihfestspiel" ("a festival play for the consecration of the stage").
(3) And now, the US supreme court just consecrated one of the most corrupt acts of the US government over the past decade: its vesting of retroactive legal immunity in the nation's telecom giants after they had been caught red-handed violating multiple US eavesdropping laws.
(4) But never before has a new bishop walked down the aisle at her consecration ceremony flanked by her husband.
(5) In April 2008, overzealous Heathrow security officials frisked Shenouda while on his way to consecrating St George's Coptic Cathedral , Shephalbury Manor, Stevenage.
(6) On both occasions, he said, the then archbishop of Wales, Barry Morgan, told electors that people in civil partnerships were not eligible to be consecrated.
(7) The consecration at York Minster on Monday of the Rev Libby Lane as the new bishop of Stockport shows that the Church of England has got at least one foot in the 21st century; the consecration next week of the Rev Philip North as bishop of Burnley shows that it still has a rump in the fifth.
(8) Williams will be replaced by 56-year-old former oil executive the Rt Rev Justin Welby, the bishop of Durham, who will be consecrated in March at Canterbury Cathedral as the new archbishop of Canterbury.
(9) In a statement the archbishop of Sydney, the Rt Rev Peter Jensen, said: "It is true that his consecration was one of the flashpoints for a serious realignment of the whole Communion.
(10) In 2003, John was nominated as bishop of Reading, but was asked by Williams to stand aside after some traditionalists threatened to leave the Church of England if his consecration went ahead.
(11) Members of Gafcon, a group of conservative Anglicans deeply opposed to same-sex marriage and gay rights, have been agitating for sanctions to be imposed on the US Episcopal church for 12 years, since the consecration of a gay priest, Gene Robinson, as bishop of New Hampshire.
(12) Welby spoke in the same interview about the very moving experience of being present earlier this year in a South Sudanese town in the aftermath of the massacre of Christians, where he was asked to consecrate the ground before the bodies of murdered clergy and others were placed into a mass grave.
(13) Lane, who will be consecrated in a ceremony at York Minster on Monday, reveals that being squeezed between two siblings had a formative influence that made her strive that much harder.
(14) Of course the national focus will rightly be on her consecration, and not on his.
(15) The Archbishop of Canterbury blamed liberal North American churches yesterday for causing turmoil in the Anglican communion by blessing same-sex unions and consecrating gay clergy as he attempted to chart a way out of the crisis that has been engulfing the church.
(16) I'm just the bishop," he and Andrew had to wear bullet-proof vests at his consecration.
(17) While prosecuting as witches those women careproviders who were matrons and sages, the Church instituted consecrated women to provide what she expected from care-giving, and had them recognized as the socialized model of care-providers.
(18) At Leonard's own consecration in 1964, an Old Catholic bishop from the small churches that have separated from the Roman Catholic church, but are in full communion with the Church of England, had joined the bishops who consecrated him.
(19) These are the Anglican provinces which the current policy is seeking to appease and keep on board, while the American and Canadian Anglican churches that now openly bless gay unions and consecrate gay bishops are condemned for daring to treat gay people equally.
(20) Women have been consecrated as bishops in many parts of the worldwide Anglican communion since 1989, and as priests in England since 1994, but opponents put up a long resistance to their further promotion in the Church of England, which only became possible last autumn.
Ordained
Definition:
(imp. & p. p.) of Ordain
Example Sentences:
(1) Here the miracle of the Lohans' baby was divinely ordained and fulfilled the entitlement of every woman to have a child.
(2) The protester was later identified as the Rev Paul Williamson, who once tried to charge an earlier archbishop of Canterbury with high treason for ordaining female priests.
(3) Cameron replied: “I don’t think they will want to be and I think they will feel pressure and want to do more.” “We should try to encourage them to do it in their own way rather than say there is some pre-ordained route they have to follow.” He said the US had managed to cut its carbon emissions thanks to the “unexpected bonus” of the “shale revolution” – widely known as fracking – which meant it was burning less coal.
(4) But Salinger ordained that these works should not be published until 50 years after his death.
(5) They leave with basic dry food in carrier bags, but no answer to an economy that ordains lifetimes of pay no family can live on.
(6) These observations are consistent with a model whereby RB expression acts as a cellular brake to sustain a developmentally ordained state of differentiation (i.e., preserve the "status quo"); and the down-regulation of heterogeneously distributed RB protein per cell below a threshold is part of the metabolic cascade culminating in terminal cell differentiation.
(7) The board ordains other conditions, such as warm clothing, essential for outdoor work.
(8) He respects his colleagues who took a different view and says that the discussions over recent days have been some of the best he has been involved in the church since being ordained in 1993.
(9) Following the change in the law, church leaders, headed by the archbishops of Canterbury and York, Justin Welby and John Sentamu respectively, decided that clergy must not enter into a same-sex marriage and that those in a gay marriage would not be ordained.
(10) AL Kennedy: 'Salmond has the warm potato head of a man who is Scottish and – we hope – no threat' Dundee-born AL Kennedy, 45, is an ordained minister, standup and dramatist, as well as an award-winning fiction writer.
(11) He did not believe the United States was safe.” Doggart’s defense attorneys said their client is an ordained minister with the Christian National Church, has numerous degrees and certificates and is a veteran.
(12) This, conflated with a kind of turbo-Darwinism, made eugenics a common feature of the national debate, and it was not at all unusual for judges and politicians and other notables to wish, out loud, like Leslie Scott, the solicitor general, that "by a stroke of the pen it could be ordained that from today onwards no mental defective should be allowed to breed".
(13) The number of bishops in the Holy Synod increased from 20 to 83; four bishops were ordained in Britain, where 30,000 Egyptian Copts live.
(14) King was ordained, did a doctoral degree at Boston University, and then in 1955 became pastor of the Dexter Avenue Baptist Church, an upper-income Negro church in Montgomery, Alabama.
(15) Leonard once used the law of trespass to prevent 100 men and women accepting the ministration of a female priest ordained abroad.
(16) Labour's Criminal Justice Act in 2003 ordained longer sentences, while asbos and other licences led to more people being jailed for breaching them.
(17) The Dude even made it into the top 10 of Empire’s 100 Greatest Movie Characters of All Time and a religion promoting his life philosophy, Dudeism, has over 250,000 ordained priests.
(18) They take vows of poverty and chastity, but they are not ordained, which is why they have no power," said Kenneth Briggs, author of Double Crossed: Uncovering the Catholic Church's Betrayal of American Nuns .
(19) Mackie plays Harry Mitchell, an agent tasked with keeping Damon to his ordained "plan" and away from love interest Emily Blunt.
(20) I would ... attach importance to the fact that Father Baldwin had been appointed by his bishop as parish priest: that is not simply to be equated with his status as ordained priest."