Sentence examples for for consecration from inspiring English sources

When a newly appointed bishop refused to be consecrated by him and instead travelled to distant Rome for consecration by the Pope, Gerbert hastened to Rome to defend the legitimacy of his election.

Because he was below the canonical age for consecration upon the completion of his studies, he needed a papal dispensation.

His head and face are shaved, and he presents the upper and lower robes of the novice for consecration by the officiating abbot or senior monk.

However, I later learned that, for all his fellow-countrymen's broadmindedness, Niemeyer has had occasional tussles with the local ecclesiastical authorities; a cathedral he built in São Paulo waited years for consecration because the clergy felt that it was outré.

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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.

Since 1956 Maundy Thursday has been celebrated in Roman Catholic churches with a morning liturgy for the consecration of the holy oils for the coming year and an evening liturgy in commemoration of the institution of the Eucharist, with a general communion.

A group calling itself the Society for the Consecration of Russia denounced the cardinal for "doing exactly what the devil wants" by appeasing the communists.The supreme, or most devilish, moment of Cardinal Casaroli's career came in 1988.

Accordingly, while he was staying in Sydney for his consecration, O'Reily sought to establish a convent for the Sydney-based Sisters of the Good Samaritan in Port Pirie.

The Elections and Transitions Committee arranged for the Whittemore Center to be used for the consecration, a large hockey rink on the campus of the University of New Hampshire in Durham.

Berhtwald was consecrated on 29 June 693, having travelled to France for his consecration as archbishop of Canterbury by Godwin, Archbishop of Lyon.