Sentence examples for could be consecrated from inspiring English sources

In early July the General Synod of the Church of England voted in London to approve a process by which women could be consecrated as bishops.

3Though elected on March 23, 752, Stephen (II) died two days later, before he could be consecrated, and thus is ordinarily not counted.

"There were a number of edicts in the early medieval Church... disseminated from Rome, saying a church could not be consecrated without a relic". Without modern authentication procedures, it was difficult to verify if the remains were genuine.

If you didn't know one thing about Vicky Gene Robinson, the US Episcopalian cleric who this weekend will be consecrated diocesan bishop of New Hampshire, you could mistake him for any one of a thousand vicars or a hundred bishops.

A single priestly family could not operate all these establishments, and so Levites rose to the priesthood; at private sanctuaries even non-Levites might be consecrated as priests.

"All your acts," Ram Dass writes, "will be consecrated".

Alhfrith had him elected bishop of York, but Wilfrid refused to be consecrated by Celtic bishops and was therefore consecrated at Compiègne, Fr.

The only canonical requirement is that a cathedral should be consecrated and adequately endowed.

In 1989, the Rev. Barbara Clementine Harris became the first woman to be consecrated as an Episcopal bishop.

He will be consecrated in the autumn.

She will be consecrated at York Minster on 3 July.