Sentence examples for had been consecrated from inspiring English sources

By 1913 he had been consecrated bishop of Tivhkin and suffragan (subordinate bishop) of Novgorod, positions he was holding at the time of the Russian Revolution of 1917.

In the words of Gen. P.G.T. Beauregard, the battle flag had been "consecrated by the best blood of our country on so many battle-fields".

Towne even shows the curious appearance of Christian altarpieces standing like wardrobes in the main arena: it had been consecrated as a church in those days.

Benedict made a controversial decision in January 2009 to revoke the excommunications of four bishops who in 1988 had been consecrated, without papal sanction, by Marcel Lefebvre (1905 91), an ultraconservative French archbishop who was excommunicated with them.

After study and exchanges with Anglicans at Oxford (1617 23) and with continental reformers in Germany, Switzerland, and Italy until c. 1630, he returned to the East and was made an Egyptian bishop in 1631; by 1636 he had been consecrated patriarch of Alexandria.

Dozens of activists and people who described themselves as victims of stop-and-frisk began their demonstration in front of the Adam Clayton Powell State Office Building on 125th Street, on a corner that Dr. West, an organizer of the rally, said had been "consecrated by giants like Malcolm X".

In this liturgy no consecration of the eucharistic offering occurs because the eucharistic offerings used have been consecrated on the previous Sunday—and it is celebrated on weekday mornings during Lent as well as from Monday to Wednesday during Holy Week.

Twenty-five new bishops have been consecrated.

They instinctively feel their art has been consecrated by the passage of time.

A whole musical repertoire has been consecrated to (one of my favorite words) the crepuscular.

Yet it has always been considered deeply unfashionable when it comes to settings for TV drama, while cities like Liverpool have been consecrated by the likes of Alan Bleasdale.