Sentence examples for consecrating from inspiring English sources

American liberals hate a covenant which Anglican churches are being asked to sign, pledging to avoid provocative actions like consecrating openly gay bishops.

In other words, bishops in the southern hemisphere should stop taking traditionalist parishes or dioceses under their wing and consecrating new bishops for benighted, liberal lands.

And at the Orthodox Patriarchate, he was treated as an honoured guest, and memorably asked the Orthodox Patriarch to bless him; but he did not join in consecrating bread and wine the most solemn moment of the service because unresolved doctrinal differences make such a thing impossible.

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.

Ceremonies held on each December 28th, Innocents' day, saw children picking and consecrating their own child-bishop.

The primate of Numidia, Secundus of Tigisi, who had acquired in the previous 40 years the right of consecrating the bishop of Carthage, arrived in Carthage with 70 bishops and in solemn council declared Caecilian's election invalid.

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.

This image is of a nation largely united in relief at the Brothers' abrupt exit, proud of its army and police, and scornful of the malingering few, including foreign journalists, who question the wisdom of Egypt's chosen path.The presidential elections set to unfold on May 26th and 27th look sure to consecrate this image.