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BEIJING — A Roman Catholic bishop who stunned congregants and Communist Party officials last July when he renounced his government position during his consecration has been stripped of his religious title, according to two Catholic Web sites that cited contacts in the Chinese church.

Bishop Ma's public rebuke of government interference in religious life was especially troubling to the authorities because his consecration had been the product of a rare agreement between both sides.

The Great Stupa of Dharmakaya, whose 10-day consecration concluded today, "has been built exactly according to the Tibetan tradition," said Reginald A. Ray, a professor of Buddhist studies at Naropa University in Boulder, Colo.

The evolving consecration of Ground Zero has been tortuous and fraught, occasionally a flea-circus pantomime of the historical and global frictions that, directly or indirectly, rendered this patch of Manhattan eligible for consecration in the first place.

The consecration of women into the episcopate has been moved from certainty to inevitability.

PAGE 38 Episcopalians Vote to Secede A California diocese moved toward seceding from the Episcopal Church, which has been split over the consecration of a gay bishop.

It's difficult to know what the defining news moment of 2015 has been so far: the consecration of the first female bishop in the UK?

It is fitting that Genzken's belated consecration comes from MOMA: New York, the Ur-metropolis, has been her wolf mother, and the connection is primal on several grounds.

It has been the scene of royal weddings as well as Napoleon Bonaparte's consecration as emperor and the beatification of Joan of Arc.

He has been something of a human lightning rod ever since the church voted at its convention in 2003 to consent to his consecration as bishop of New Hampshire.

In April a similar measure had failed to garner the required two-thirds majority of clergy in the Church of Wales, although consecration of women bishops had been endorsed by the House of Bishops and the House of Laity.