The phrase "has been ordained" is correct and usable in written English.
It is a verb phrase that usually indicates that something has been formally declared to be a certain way. For example, "The church has been ordained to provide spiritual guidance to its members."
Perec is the defending Olympic champion; Freeman has been ordained as the champion-in-waiting.
Father Mansfield, 41, has been ordained only three years, after a career as a disc jockey.
She is the mother of a daughter and son, and since 2007 she has been ordained as a Christian minister.
This has been ordained by High Priests: the African Development Bank, World Bank, Economic Commission for Africa and well-heeled corporate spin doctors.
The marriages will be performed by the actor and writer Colman Domingo, a Tony Award nominee this year for "The Scottsboro Boys," who has been ordained by the non-denominational Universal Life Church for the ceremony.
REPORTER AT LARGE about Dr. William G. Pollard, the executive director of the Oak Ridge Inst. of Nuclear Studies, in Oak Ridge, Tenn., who after 20 years as a physicist has been ordained a deacon of the Episcopal Church.
The Universal Life Church, founded in 1959 and based in Modesto, Calif., for decades has been ordaining people free (ordination certificates can cost $5; a "ministry package," including baptism certificates and a parking placard, is $119.95).
The Church of South India, successor of the Church of England in India, has been ordaining women as priests since 1976, but Pushpalalitha is the first woman elected bishop.
The Episcopal Church has been ordaining women to the priesthood since 1974, and we have women deacons, priests and bishops throughout the church -- including two women bishops here in the Diocese of Los Angeles.
Kesha is a vegetarian and an ordained minister, having been ordained online.
High Church traditionalists will look for alternative male bishops who have been ordained by a man, and who have not themselves ordained women as priests.
