Sentences with phrase «ordained as»

In addition to his work as a therapist, Gordon is ordained as clergy person (vocational deacon) in the Episcopal Church.

Before being involved with Imago, he was ordained as minister in the Dutch Reformed Church.

The school in question was founded in 1969 by two individuals who were ordained as Anglican ministers in 1977.

He served in British Army Intelligence from 1944 to 1947, and in 1949 joined the Benedictine Prinknash Abbey in Gloucestershire, being ordained as a priest in 1959.

She is ordained as a Zen Buddhist priest in the lineage of Shunryu Suzuki - roshi, and spent more than 10 years at San Francisco -LSB-...]

According to the Global Anabaptist Mennonite Encyclopedia, Simons was ordained as a Roman Catholic priest at Utrecht in 1524, but quickly began to question some of the church's beliefs and practices when, «while he was administering the Mass he began to doubt whether the bread and the wine were actually being changed into the flesh and blood of Christ.»

He was ordained as a Jesuit priest in 2003 and received his MFA in creative writing from the University of Michigan in 2006.

She is ordained as an interfaith minister, and holds a doctorate in religion from Emory University and an M.A. of theological studies from the Harvard Divinity School.

He is soon ordained as the military's next great hope and is charged to lead his fellow soldiers into an epic battle that will determine the future of Earth and save the human race.

One time I was arguing with people about parallel issues and I pointed out that if it was up to them (and many of them claim to be «scientists»), clean natural healthy food would have been outlawed and medication would have been ordained as the only legal sound food in this country.

He was later transferred to Agona Nsaba in the Central Region (1995 - 1999), where he was ordained as a Pastor in 1996.

Clegg was ordained as a deacon in the United Methodist Church in 2007, has served on the board of directors of the Rip Van Winkle Council of the Boy Scouts of America for 10 years, has been a member of the Ulster County Board of Health and is chairman of the Ulster County Human Rights Commission.

And to be fair, within just 20 years of women priests being possible it now has women making up about 50 % of those ordained as priests.

«I was watching Mr. Sheinkopf here in the front row moving to the music,» Cuomo said of the politico, who was ordained as an Orthodox rabbi in 2011.

Herein, in contrast to all other church orders, the deacon is mentioned first «as servant in the midst of the holy people,» the presbyter upon whom «we [other presbyters or bishops or both] stretch forth the hand» that «he may be able to be steward of thy people and an ambassador of thy divine oracles and reconcile thy people to thee who didst give of the spirit of Moses upon the chosen ones [the elders];» and finally the bishop who is ordained as «shepherd» of the flock «in succession to the [Old Testament] prophets, patriarchs, and the New Testament apostles.»

I've been ordained as a minister for over 25 years.

With the instigation and help of Franciscan missionaries, Sulaka went to Rome and Pope Julius m (1550 - 1555) ordained him as the patriarch which divided the Nestorian community even to this day.

We officially allow women to be ordained as local elders.

Ever wondered what it would be like to become ordained as a priest, rabbi or imam?

He knows that Yahweh has «ordained them as a judgment,» but what of Yahweh's judgment against them, when they go on «mercilessly slaving nations for ever!»?

Currently there is a huge debate in our denomination about whether women can be ordained as pastors.

Since the practice of homosexuality is incompatible with Christian teaching, self - avowed practicing homosexuals are not to be accepted as candidates, ordained as ministers, or appointed to serve in the United Methodist Church.

I claim to be a feminist and yet presume I possess traces of misogyny simply because I am a male, raised as a male, educated as a male, ordained as a male, and served as a part of a male - dominated leadership of an institution historically dominated by male power, mindset and ideology.

Even HE can not understand why the church won't allow women to be ordained as priests, or why priests can not be married.

Over 500 bishops and priests were ordained as Catholic priests.

Seventeen years later, Maples had traded her crisp police blues for earth - toned robes when Nhat Hanh ordained her as a Buddhist dharma teacher.

In June 21, 1970 Romero was ordained as bishop.

p.s. southern baptist ministers must ascribe to something called a «statement of faith» in order to be ordained as Dr King was: http://www.sbc.net/bfm/bfm2000.asp

Therefore self - avowed PRACTICING homosexuals are not to be certified as candidates, ordained as ministers, or appointed to serve in the United Methodist Church.»

@Pontifex #AskPontifex Your Holiness, can you please tell us why women aren't allowed to be ordained as Catholic priests?

The Lord has ordained me as one of two end of days witnesses (prophets).

She was among the first women in Australia to be ordained as a bishop in 2008.

Back in 2008 I wrote a post called «A Funny Thing Happened On The Way To The Polls» to address how surprised I was at the way Conservative Evangelical Christians were embracing the idea of a woman for Vice President while at the same time standing against women being ordained as pastors.

The son of a strict Calvinist preacher, Putnam was ordained as a Congregational minister in 1868, before eventually becoming a freethinking lecturer and author of such pamphlets as Religion a Curse, Religion a Disease, Religion a Lie.

There's always a feeling of admiration when I meet women who were among the first to be ordained as priests in the Church of England.

Among such teachers who meet all qualifications, there is a growing number who do not wish to be ordained as ministers.

Ordained as bishop in 370, he had long preached social justice in his sermons.

Soper, who was ordained as a priest in 1970, claimed the use of discipline had been interpreted in a «sexual way» amid a «tsunami of media attention as I am named fairly frequently».

The greater church confirmed that inward call when I was ordained as a Minister of Word and Sacrament.

Huang Bingzhang was ordained as Bishop of the Diocese of Shantou in southeast China on Thursday, the Vatican said, although Rome had asked him «on numerous occasions not to accept episcopal ordination.»

In the 20th century individual clergy coming into the Catholic Church from ecclesial bodies separated from the Catholic Church at the Reformation, were given special permission to be ordained as Catholic priests.

Next year, I will return to the Archdiocese to be ordained as a priest and live out the rest of my life in the service of the Church in our part of Scotland.

The Israelites in the Old Testament were severely punished when they strayed from what God ordained as a proper lifestyle.

The issue of women in ministry had first been raised mainly but not solely in North America in the early «70s, with questions concerning whether women could be ordained as ministers or elders.

I was once ordained as a minister of the gospel and a bible teacher.

Marking a new era for the Roman Catholic Church in England, three former Anglican bishops were ordained as Catholic priests in London on Saturday, the first to take advantage of a new Vatican program that makes it easier for dissatisfied Anglicans to enter Catholicism.

The parishes will be led by former Anglican clergy - including those who are married - who could be ordained as Catholic priests, according to the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops.

A former safari camp worker from South Africa has become the first woman to be ordained as a Church of Scotland minister on the Isle of Skye.

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He does not fit under the ordinate because he was ordained as a Catholic.