Sentence examples for with the consecration from inspiring English sources
The other English bishops present at Reims Hilary of Chichester and Josceline de Bohon —refused to help with the consecration, claiming it was contrary to custom for an English bishop to be consecrated outside of England.
I watched and listened with the consecration of a yogi.
But the pivotal point was his refusal to go ahead with the consecration of Jeffrey John, whom I had nominated as Bishop of Reading.
The breakaway votes have come after a long-running debate over church reforms that culminated with the consecration of an openly gay bishop in 2003.
The Church of England has made significant efforts to update its image in recent years, most notably with the consecration of Libby Lane as its first female bishop.
It became clear to the archbishop that if he was going to have any hope of holding the Anglican Communion together, he could not be associated with the consecration of Jeffrey.
Stephanie Spellers, who attended the consecration with a group of fellow students from the Episcopal Divinity School in Cambridge, Mass., said: "Especially for me as an African-American, I am pretty sensitive to people saying you don't have a place in the church.
He sought to replace it with a doctrine of remanence (remaining)—"This is very bread after the consecration"—combined with an assertion of the Real Presence in a noncorporeal form.
To the left of the entrance, below deities in billowing scarves and elaborate jewelry, are panels depicting horses carrying timber for the construction of the temple, goats with panniers of dirt and the king and queen with visiting dignitaries, assembled for the consecration of the temple.
But, as with the recent consecration of Christopher Hitchens, another "progressive" opponent of the communist regimes of eastern Europe who found favour with Washington's neocons, there is another side to the story.
The primates' statement put the onus on leaders of the Episcopal Church USA, the American wing of Anglicanism, not to go ahead with the final consecration ceremony for Bishop-elect V. Gene Robinson, scheduled for Nov. 2.
