ordination

Yet, until now, in the Orthodox movement, ordination has been granted only privately and rather infrequently.

The study also cites a reluctance among some sisters to embrace the “reservation of priestly ordination to men.”

The fatwas used to carry the authority of divine ordination.

Rome's scrambling to undo damage from changes to church law that lumped ordination of women priests with child sex abuse.

No period of preparation was necessary, at least in the beginning, for the ordination of an Aglipayan priest.

There he saw the ceremony of ordination performed, and expressed warm approbation of the Anglican ritual.

And the rejoicing thus variously represented is according to Divine ordination.

He told me himself, that ever since his ordination he has assumed what he calls a priestly garb.

His long vacations had ended, ordination was at hand, and his life-work would begin in the month of October.