Sentence examples for consecrating him from inspiring English sources

The Third Republic, eager to acquire ancestors, exalted Carnot's memory, consecrating him as "the Organizer of Victory".

Ugandan-born John Sentamu is enthroned as the first black archbishop in the Church of England in a ceremony consecrating him as the 97th archbishop of York.

Intensely, passionately my being went out to his, consecrating him in my living breast, yearning to eternalise him.

In disgust, Hippolytus withdrew from the Roman community and headed a dissident group that consecrated him.

When he was 2 days old, he said, his mother consecrated him to God's service.

So great was his success that he was called to Rome, where Gregory consecrated him a missionary bishop.

Gregory consecrated him in November at Lyon, where he resigned as minister general of the Franciscans in May 1274.

Otto subsequently gave Gerbert the headship of the wealthy monastery of St. Columban of Bobbio (southwest of Piacenza, Italy), and Benedict VII consecrated him abbot of the monastery.

The current and former presiding bishops of the Episcopal Church were among the more than three dozen bishops who encircled Bishop Robinson last November and consecrated him with a laying on of hands.

In Jenkins' case, an Essex vicar raised £2,000 from his scandalised congregation to mount a campaign against Jenkins getting the job; the archbishop of York, John Habgood, went ahead and consecrated him a bishop anyway – and three days later York Minster was struck by lightning.

As a result, Lanfranc refused to consecrate him.