Sentence examples for by consecrating from inspiring English sources

The Episcopal Church shed members and set off an uproar in the international Anglican Communion to which it belongs by consecrating its first openly gay bishop in 2003.

In early March, "the people of New Hampshire did their work," she said, by consecrating the first openly gay Episcopal bishop, Gene V. Robinson.

In a ceremony in Singapore last year, two Anglican archbishops -- one from Africa, the other from Asia -- shocked leaders of the Episcopal Church by consecrating two Episcopal priests as bishops.

Unresolved doctrinal differences make it impossible for, say, Catholic and Coptic Christians to share routinely in their faith's most important rite which, for believers, involves "making present" the self-sacrifice of Jesus Christ by consecrating bread and wine.

The Episcopal Church, which is the Anglican body in the United States, caused an uproar in 2003 by consecrating the first openly gay bishop, V. Gene Robinson of New Hampshire.

New York City is doing what it can to bring definition to this mourning by consecrating powdered debris from the trade center site and depositing it in small mahogany urns that will be given to the victims' families at a memorial service later this month.

The Swiss-based SSPX, which rejects some of the reforms made at the historic 1962-1965 Secondefiedcan Council, defied Rome in 1988 by illegally consecrating four bishops, triggering their excommunication by the late Pope John Paul.

The archbishop, who clung to the Latin liturgy when it was dropped by the Second Vatican Council in 1965, was excommunicated by John Paul II for consecrating bishops in defiance of the Vatican.

Fremnatos was rewarded for this by being consecrated Bishop of Aksum at a ceremony in Alexandria.

The archbishop was reprimanded by two popes for consecrating priests according to earlier norms without Vatican approval.

so inspired by my dear friends consecrating their love with grace and style.