Sentence examples for had consecrated from inspiring English sources

Then the 1998 Lambeth Conference, the once-a-decade gathering of worldwide Anglicans, passed the resolution declaring homosexuality "incompatible with Scripture"; within five years, the American church had consecrated a gay bishop.

The Yeshiva University family mourns the passing of a highly beloved alumnus of Yeshiva College '60, Isaac Breuer College '61 and Wurzweiler School of Social Work '62 who had consecrated his life to serving the community as a social worker and mentor to hundreds of Jewish communal workers worldwide.

"In the course of phone conversations that I had with Jean-Marie Lustiger in the course of the last weeks, I found a man of great courage, lucid about his condition, but full of the hope of soon meeting him to whom he had consecrated his life," President Nicolas Sarkozy said in a statement announcing his death.

To secure the succession, Augustine had consecrated Laurence before he died, even though that was prohibited by canon law.

It was built in the Romanesque manner, and although little survives of it today, it is thought to have been influenced by the cathedral of Lund, the archbishop of which had consecrated Jocelin as bishop.

This went against the last half-century of precedent that Canterbury had jurisdiction over the four Welsh sees, a precedent that dated back to Anselm's days when Anselm had consecrated Urban as Bishop of Llandaff in 1107.

His minder asks him to describe the outside of the house he has "consecrated".

(AP) BLOOMFIELD: LATINO EPISCOPAL BISHOP INSTALLED The Episcopal Diocese of Connecticut has consecrated its first Latino bishop.

"It is clear that those who have consecrated Gene Robinson have acted in good faith on their understanding of what the constitution of the American church permits.

At one end of the spectrum, the Episcopal church in America has consecrated an openly lesbian bishop; at the other end, African bishops have supported harsh anti-gay laws.

"Strangely, Argentina has consecrated tango and literature, which are a great mixture of cultural influences, but not the third manifestation of this mixing, which is architecture".