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Related: Vatican crisis over bishop who denies the Holocaust It was the second such ceremony in the past month: Faure was consecrated here without papal approval only two weeks ago by the Holocaust-denying British bishop Richard Williamson.

The intelligentsia had nurtured the cult of the persecuted and consecrated its own heroic struggle (a censor's ban was a badge of honour).

But this week he left his redoubt for the first time to attend a meeting of the AU's peace and security council on March 10th at the body's headquarters in Addis Ababa, the Ethiopian capital, where his excited aides expect him to be officially consecrated as president by his peers and Mr Gbagbo dumped.Even if that happens, Mr Gbagbo is unlikely to go quietly.

In practice, the political facts, consecrated by referendum, override the legal ones.

At one end of the spectrum, the Episcopal church in America has consecrated an openly lesbian bishop; at the other end, African bishops have supported harsh anti-gay laws.

Today Britain leads Europe on substantive rights for same-sex couples, Mr Wintemute says so restrictions on what the relationship is called and how it is consecrated seem petty.

In a hotel room in Paris he was formally consecrated king of the Albanians.

In 1965, at just 32, he was consecrated the world's youngest Roman Catholic bishop.

The city's modernist cathedral, built in concrete with windows made of glowing slivers of alabaster, seems to stake a claim to leadership in a church that has been run for 150 years by Irish priests on the east coast.The building, designed by Jose Moneo, a Spanish architect, was consecrated on September 2nd by Cardinal Roger Mahony, the archbishop of Los Angeles.

See articleAfter decades of debate and arguments, the Church of England consecrated its first female bishop at a ceremony in York Minster.A tangled webArgentina's president, Cristina Fernández de Kirchner, announced a shake-up of the country's intelligence service following the unexplained death of the prosecutor who was investigating the bombing in 1994 of a Jewish centre in Buenos Aires.

And GDF Suez, another giant utility, consecrated an heir apparent, Isabelle Kocher, to take over in 2016 on the departure of its current chief, Gérard Mestrallet.Other bosses saying adieu include Baudouin Prot, who leaves the chairmanship of BNP Paribas after the huge fine the American authorities imposed on the bank for sanctions-busting.