ordained

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“I don’t understand how as a pastor, he thinks that that’s acceptable,” Levy Armstrong, also an ordained reverend, said in a Washington Post interview Monday.

From Salon • Jan. 20, 2026

He says, “I’ve said nothing new that I have not said in 35 years of ordained ministry.”

From Slate • Jan. 15, 2026

"I had a wonderful letter from an ordained woman who said the announcement of my appointment was the first time that she felt affirmed as a priest," she told BBC Radio 4.

From BBC • Dec. 31, 2025

He was ordained as a priest in 1994.

From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 18, 2025

An ordained priest now, he presented a dignified, benevolent figure, but by the second hour of the reception it was clear he was crushed.

From "Middlesex: A Novel" by Jeffrey Eugenides