Holy Orders

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A bitter man, George Tennyson had been disinherited by his own father and forced into holy orders.

From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 20, 2026

“His vocation is the holy orders in which he promised obedience, he vowed obedience to his bishop and his bishop’s successors,” she said.

From Washington Times • Dec. 22, 2022

Labour is dear too: half a century ago, 97% of teachers were in holy orders.

From Economist • Sep. 24, 2015

His father, originally a mathematician, had taken holy orders and, when Hurt was five years old, became parish priest at Woodville on the Derbyshire-Leicestershire border.

From BBC • Dec. 30, 2014

For the rest of his life he was thoroughly cosmopolitan, travelling widely, living for twenty years in Weimar, and for six years near Rome, where he took holy orders.

From "The Story of Music" by Howard Goodall