ordain

Example Sentences

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"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

Coming just over three decades after the first women priests were ordained in the Church of England, it seems a natural development.

From BBC

His children were working, getting married and established in their own homes, and he’d been ordained as a pastor in 1999 and was deeply involved in his church.

From Los Angeles Times

Both ordained ministers, they talked about their faith and efforts at bipartisanship.

From Los Angeles Times

Bishop Emily Onyango - the first woman ordained as a bishop in the Anglican Church of Kenya - called the news that Dame Sarah had been named Archbishop designate "a new dawn".

From BBC