Sentence examples for be consecrated as from inspiring English sources

In 1989, the Rev. Barbara Clementine Harris became the first woman to be consecrated as an Episcopal bishop.

A: The General Convention in 2003 might have looked like that to people, when there was the vote for my consent (to be consecrated as a bishop).

In early July the General Synod of the Church of England voted in London to approve a process by which women could be consecrated as bishops.

A single priestly family could not operate all these establishments, and so Levites rose to the priesthood; at private sanctuaries even non-Levites might be consecrated as priests.

He refused to be consecrated as archbishop until William restored the lands to Canterbury and acknowledged Urban II as the rightful pope against the antipope Clement III.

Bishop Glasspool, 56, is to be consecrated as one of two new assistant bishops, known as suffragan bishops, in Los Angeles on May 15.

It was no coincidence that the chapel was the first part of the palace to be completed and was consecrated as early as 1752.

He was consecrated as bishop of London in 1577.

With the Christian reconquest of Spain in the 13th century, it was consecrated as a cathedral.

In 2010 the uncompleted church was consecrated as a basilica by Pope Benedict XVI.

And the year the church was consecrated as Catholic is not known, though it did not occur in 1285.