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ordained

adjective as in ordered

adjective as in invested into the ministry

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The New Way Ministry statement says Pope Francis appointed Sister Becquart to her position as the Vatican’s Undersecretary of the Synod of Bishops in February 2021, making her the first non-ordained person to hold the position.

Those encounters convince him that perhaps he can stray from his pre-ordained path of villainy.

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Most people know the Universal Life Church as a quick and easy place to get ordained without leaving your couch.

He became ordained and created a new service for his company.

As a young man, Darwin was deeply religious and even considered being ordained.

Yup, Evelyn and Donald Knapp are “ordained Christian ministers” suing for the right to discriminate.

Those words were said by Joshu Sasaki Roshi, who ordained Leonard Cohen as a Zen monk in 1996.

And I am told that the governor ordained what had to be done, namely, to make no investigations against the dead woman.

As far above the interference of man as is the government of the external universe, is that designated the covenant, as ordained.

Out of the mouths of babes and sucklings hast thou ordained strength (founded glory).

Just a few priests ordained in the Roman Catholic Church have joined the schismatic cause.

They despise the word of him who ordained that good the most extensive should come to sinners through that covenant.

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On this page you'll find 18 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to ordained, such as: appointed, commanded, determined, established, and ordered.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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