Sentence examples for minor orders from inspiring English sources

He took minor orders in 1642 and entered a monastery in 1659.

The minor orders represented church services rendered by persons not ordained.

Numerous minor orders are considered branches of the Aḥmadiyyah and are spread all over the Islamic world.

He even took minor orders in the Roman Catholic Church in 1865, becoming an abbé but appropriately stopping short of the vow of chastity.

The Latin church had long recognized four minor orders (porter, lector, exorcist, acolyte) and four major orders (subdeacon, deacon, priest, bishop).

References in the poem suggest that he knew London and Westminster as well as Shropshire, and he may have been a cleric in minor orders in London.

These cycles of minor order were characterised by rapid sea-level rises and gradual sea-level falls that generated depositional sequences spanning different time scales.

The Council of Trent (1545 63) defined the order and hoped to reactivate it on the pastoral level, but it became only a preparatory rite, or minor order, leading to the priesthood.

A directive of Pope Paul VI (effective Jan . 1 1973) decreed that the office of acolyte should no longer be called a minor order but a ministry and that it should be open to laymen.

If that mystery now seems of a minor order, there's no question it influenced generations of artists, from Jasper Johns to Jeff Koons, whose 2013 "Gazing Ball" sculptures are nothing if not Magrittean.

The order of markers for the lower coverage linkage groups was fairly consistent with minor order changes probably as a result of missing data.