Sentence examples for they were ordained from inspiring English sources

Bishops have it now because they were ordained by earlier bishops.

Monsignor Schmitz told the congregation that he and Father Przybylo were seminary classmates and that they were ordained on the same day in 1968.

In a 2000 interview with The Guardian newspaper, the archbishop stated that, although priests who had accepted celibacy when they were ordained should keep that vow, marriage was not incompatible with the priesthood.

The new priests, nominally under the authority of those European dioceses in which they were ordained, returned to the United States and Canada to serve immigrant Eastern Rite communities, he said.

Last March, the archbishop of St . Louis Raymond L. Burke, excommunicated two women in his diocese and another living in Germany after they were ordained as priests as part of the Roman Catholic Womenpriests organization.

Opponents to today's proposals to allow women to be appointed bishops 20 years after they were ordained into the Anglican church are in good company in the Catholic church, which is why so many of them are expected to turn to Rome if the synod vote is passed.

Then usually at age 19 they are ordained "elders," the lowest office in the Melchizedek priesthood.

There is no ontological change in human beings when they are ordained to the priesthood.

George Mead Moore Madrid, Spain There is no ontological change in human beings when they are ordained to the priesthood.

I'm usually a no-candy-bars-before-breakfast kind of girl, but I make an exception when they are ordained from on high.

Today, if they are ordained at all, boys typically spend a week in monk's robes, giving rise to the term "factory monks" because they are churned out so quickly.