Sentence examples for it consecrated from inspiring English sources

Bishops in five dioceses and priests in at least 100 parishes have broken from the Episcopal Church since it consecrated its first openly gay bishop, V. Gene Robinson, in New Hampshire.

Conservative provinces in the Anglican Communion, especially some in Africa, broke their ties with the Episcopal Church after it consecrated Bishop Robinson.

On Sunday it consecrated the 50th new church, and the most spectacular: a striking Modernist structure designed by Richard Meier around three soaring "sails" of white concrete.

But when PV Narasimha Rao, a fellow Andhrite, became prime minister in 1991, it consecrated Sathya Sai Baba's position as the most powerful god-man in India.

But the six African churches are insisting on sanctions against the US Episcopal Church, which tipped the simmering conflict over gay rights into open hostility when it consecrated gay priest Gene Robinson as bishop of New Hampshire in 2003.

It consecrated your life.

It consecrates the soldier's sacred purpose as surely as the one Dürer painted on his Virgin Mary, mother of sorrows.

Parishioners festively cut the sapling to be used as the badnjak and take it to their church, where it is consecrated by a priest before it is ceremonially placed on a fire built in the churchyard.

Gutted in 1689 and rebuilt several times, it was consecrated in 1961 after its most recent restoration.

It was consecrated in 2006 after much debate on whether it was appropriate to build an Orthodox church in the center of the campus, said Vasily Zhukov, who is rector of the university and said all of its campuses also had prayer rooms for Muslims and other non-Orthodox students.

"Each time I do, I make the sign of the cross, as it was consecrated as holy ground and its sale and subsequent abandonment reminded me of the Orthodox churches closed by the Communists.