On All Saints' Day, November 1, 1845, she was consecrated Sister Anne, a "sister of the Holy Communion," by Muhlenberg.
In 1918 she was consecrated senior bishop of the Pillar of Fire, becoming the first woman bishop of any Christian church.
Last August, when she had herself consecrated Christendom's first "lady apostle," Nigerian politicians and Nollywood actors attended the ceremony.
The election Saturday of the Rev. Mary D. Glasspool of Baltimore as assistant bishop must be approved by a majority of dioceses across the church before she can be consecrated.
She will be consecrated at York Minster on 3 July.
"If no female bishop is available, the vacancy would be filled by the next most senior male bishop, as currently happens". Mrs Lane's appointment - she will be consecrated as the eighth Bishop of Stockport in January - will end centuries of male leadership of the Church.
At a traditional Jewish wedding, the central moment is when the groom gives the bride a ring and announces that with it she now is "consecrated" to him according to the "laws of Moses and the Jewish people".
He wanted to make a film about consecrated life, she said, because he thought that people needed to understand it better.
For a moment she considers taking her thoughts to the confessional, since, for all their blamelessness, they seem to have consecrated the simple objects she and Florian were surrounded by when they met in the local grocery store: "She wondered if they would ever be the same again, if what she'd bought herself would be, the Brown & Polson's cornflour, Rinso.
The temple she was to consecrate was born of more worldly concerns.
In her exaltation of women, she purifies and consecrates their desires.
