Sentence examples for being consecrated from inspiring English sources

He was archdeacon of Canterbury (1148) and chaplain to King Stephen before being consecrated archbishop of York (October 1154).

They had been excommunicated by Pope John Paul II in 1988 after being consecrated without a papal mandate.

Was this at the time that the Rev. Gene Robinson was being consecrated by the Episcopal Church as the first openly gay bishop?

Declining any higher office in the church (he escaped being consecrated bishop by feigning madness) and tempering his natural irascibility by monastic asceticism, he produced a wealth of theological literature.

I'd like to believe it matters little whether the European Union is being consecrated, even counter-instinctively, as a grand peacemaker, if it is really drawing lines that make clear where its tolerance stops and trouble for transgressors begins.

He was a deacon when chosen on March 26, 752, as the second successor to Pope St. Zacharias (the first successor, Stephen II, had died on the previous day without being consecrated).

Bishop Mary D. Glasspool was consecrated in Los Angeles earlier this year.

John was consecrated in February/March 931.

Twenty-five new bishops have been consecrated.

The Parthenon was consecrated in Athens.

He was consecrated about Jan . 15 708.