Sentence examples for ordination from inspiring English sources

The word 'ordination' is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used as a noun to describe a ceremony in which someone is appointed or consecrated to a religious office or ministry. For example: "The bishop conducted an ordination ceremony for two new deacons."

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ordination

noun

The act of ordaining or the state of being ordained.

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The Vatican's response to the ordination was unequivocal.

Vivaldi was born in Venice in 1678 and became known as the Red Priest on account of his red hair and ordination in 1703.

"All the declarations of Bishop Williamson and Fr Faure prove abundantly that they no longer recognize the Roman authorities, except in a purely rhetorical manner," the society said in a communique issued after his ordination.

In favour of Latin services – and fiercely opposed to ecumenism, freedom of religion and closer relations with Judaism – they had come to defy the authority of Rome with the ordination of a new priest by an excommunicated bishop, Jean-Michel Faure.

Faure has also been ejected by the society and his ordination unrecognised.

Before his ordination, brother André Zelaya de León prostrated himself before the altar and then rose to his knees for a blessing on his tonsured head by Faure.

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But surely the most complete sportsman is the one whose movements both of limb and of eye are the most finely co-ordinated, and surely the best test of co-ordination is the ability to hit a moving ball.The most complete sportsman is the one whose movements are the most finely co-ordinatedBy this definition, golf does not quite make it.

A UN or EU route, ideally in co-ordination, should provide for neutral monitors to be sent within 24 hours to guarantee eastern Ukraine's border with Russia.

The result is that the centripetal force the group once exerted has gone and we have returned to a situation similar to that of the old "pre-al-Qaida" days with a whole series of different local groups involved in local struggles with negligible central co-ordination.

Australian Customs and Border Protection (CBP) services and related rescue agencies need to improve interagency co-ordination of rescues of asylum seekers in distress, internal reviews into three fatal boat sinkings have said.

Moreover, the United States, judging by the acknowledgements of American officials published by US media, provides co-ordination and logistics support to such deliveries".

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