Sentence examples for was ordained first from inspiring English sources

He was ordained, first in 1988 by an Orthodox church that he now considers "unauthentic" and in 2000 by the Orthodox Church in America.

Being four years older than Benson, Kimball was ordained first, which put him ahead of Benson in the Quorum's seniority.

A minister is ordained first a deacon, then an elder.

He served from 1958 in Japan and in 1968 was ordained the first missionary bishop of Okinawa.

He also embraced and encouraged the idea of women becoming Reform rabbis (the first was ordained in 1973, his first year as president) and of gay rabbis feeling comfortable declaring their sexuality.

Finally, in 1880, she was ordained as the first woman minister of the Methodist Protestant Church.

In 1938, he was ordained as the first Roman Catholic priest from Oubangui-Chari.

Rabbi Sharon Gladstone, who directs a center on sexual orientation issues at Hebrew Union College in Los Angeles, said, "I was ordained last year, and the first marriage I officiated at was a marriage of two women.

In 1510, he was ordained a priest, the first one to be ordained in the Americas.

On 17 March 1938, fulfilling an ambition he had had since age twelve, he was ordained and became the first Roman Catholic priest native to Oubangui-Chari, as the colony was then called.

The first woman was ordained to "The Ministry of Word and Sacraments" in 1974.