Sentence examples for * their consecration from inspiring English sources
Burgundian and Italian bishops were to be invested in this manner after their consecration.
In June 990 the bishops and Hugh appealed to Pope John XV to condemn and depose Arnulf and to approve their consecration of a new archbishop.
The Ark of the Covenant was housed in the Shiloh sanctuary, staffed by priests of the house of Eli, who traced their consecration back to Egypt.
The second includes the offering and the presentation of bread and wine at the altar, their consecration by the priest during the eucharistic prayer (or canon of the mass), and the reception of the consecrated elements in Holy Communion.
In addition, theological controversies in the 4th and 5th centuries often resulted in bishops being deprived of their sees; they retained their consecration as bishops but had to wander to make a livelihood.
In this compromise ceremony, the king, using a sceptre as a symbol, would invest the prospective bishops and abbots with the temporalities of their future sees prior to their consecration.
Groups that left the Roman Catholic Church organized national Catholic churches in several countries and received consecration of their bishops from a bishop of the Jansenist Church of Holland.
For many countries, the prospect of hosting the Summer Olympics is sought after as the maximum consecration of their place as a modern power.
The ultimate consecration of their mainstream status came last fall with a popular television drama built around them, "No Vacancies at This Time".
But more and more gay men and women wanted the particular blessing of a formal consecration of their commitment to each other.
It may have been presented by Hildegard's sisters at the consecration of their new convent on the Rupertsberg in 1152, some suggest, with the single male role -- the Devil, of course -- taken by the monk Volmar, Hildegard's secretary.
