Sentences with word «archdeacon»

This office was received from the East Syrian Church and there is a tradition that the first archdeacon in India was from the family of Pakolomattam.

She features many of those tipped to be in the running to become the UK's first female bishop, including Rev Lucy Winkett, rector of St James's Piccadilly; Rev Rose Hudson - Wilkin, speaker's chaplain to the House of Commons; and the Venerable Sheila Watson, archdeacon of Canterbury.

«Security in churches is always tight during Sunday mass,» said S.P. Asghar, archdeacon at All Saints Church.

The bishops confirmed the faithful, ordained the clergy, and through various assistants, such as archdeacons, supervised clergy and laity.

A main text in the curriculum was written by archdeacon William Paley.

«The first week I was bishop, a very sensible and senior archdeacon came to see me and said Holy Trinity Sloane Street had to be closed — it was in impermeable territory and the vicar was very depressed.

At its least favourable, archdeacons in the Catholic Church during the Middle Ages were ordered to forcibly shave off the beards of priests if necessary.

The archdeacon is so close to God that he is gathered up into a self - annihilating vision of the Eucharist that — for all the strangeness of its writing and the absurdity of the plot — bears some kind of comparison with the closing cantos of the Paradiso:

The archdeacon who is the incumbent of this church is, it turns out, a true Grail - Guardian.

David Oliphant, an archdeacon in the Anglican diocese of Canberra and Goulburn, has perceptively remarked that those who condemn homosexuals have very little appreciation of what goes on within the youth who comes to feel the pain and pleasure of sexual feelings and desire for comfort from someone of their own sex.

«As an archdeacon in Wiltshire he was known to be dependable and creative.

I knew from a young age I wanted to be ordained — my grandfather was an archdeacon — and he was a super chap.

Archbishop Welby told the House of Lords: «Over the past 20 years, many women have given outstanding leadership as vicars, archdeacons and cathedral deans.

Well, the key thing is not to blame others, to think that our crisis is all the fault of the minister / pastor / vicar / archdeacon / banjo leader / Pope / Patriarch of Constantinople, etc..

Thus a younger contemporary, Bernard of Menthon (923-1008), of a wealthy noble family, became a priest and archdeacon, was the means of converting a neighboring savage mountain folk who robbed travelers crossing the Alps, and to serve those who passed by its doors founded the monastery in the pass which still bears his name.

St. Pope John I — Saints & Angels — Catholic Online — St. John I, Pope and Martyr (Feast day — May 18) A native of Tuscany in Italy, John was elected Pope while he was still an archdeacon upon the death of Pope Hormisdas in...

The remote Arctic establishments could only be supplied by sea and it was the voyage of the tough little Nascopie that the archdeacon had recorded on film.

The news that the clerical visitor was to give a Saturday - night talk was received with some resignation by the boys, but the archdeacon, whose diocese spread from the tree line right away up to the last few humps of ice at the North Pole, had brought reels of film with him and caught our interest and attention immediately when his operator put the first one in backwards.

The archdeacon looked at me in silence for what seemed to be a very long time.

He was the archdeacon in charge of the missionaries working in the Canadian Arctic territories.

To relieve the congestion, a party of us were sent down to the docks to work on the Nascopie, the ship that the archdeacon had told us about at school, now loading up for her annual trip with the year's supply for the distant posts.

An interview was arranged with the archdeacon himself.

«1n 1346 bishop grandisson instructed his archdeacon to bar a «sect of malign men who were constantly jeering at the leather dressers in Exeter theatre.»