ordained
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Ordained a priest in 2002, she became the first female Bishop of London in 2018, only four years after the church began allowing women bishops after years of bitter factional wrangling.
From Barron's • Mar. 25, 2026
Ordained as a deacon in 1962 and a priest the next year, he served in three parishes in Pennsylvania.
From New York Times • Mar. 15, 2023
Ordained Roman Catholic priests take a vow of clerical celibacy and are not permitted to enter into sexual relationships.
From BBC • Dec. 5, 2022
She was commissioned Provisional Elder in 2003 and Ordained Elder in 2006, the biography said.
From Seattle Times • Jul. 19, 2022
Ordained deacon in 1854, and priest in 1855, by the Bishop of Rochester, he returned to Colchester as mathematical master at the Grammar School, and did duty as a curate in the vicinity.
From Norfolk Annals A Chronological Record of Remarkable Events in the Nineteeth Century, Vol. 2 by Mackie, Charles
Vocabulary lists containing ordained
"Romeo and Juliet" by William Shakespeare, Act IV
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