ordained
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“It worked pretty well,” Mac Davis, one of the founders, who is also an ordained Buddhist monk, told me on a video call.
From Slate • Mar. 30, 2026
His wife Oluremi is a Christian who is an ordained pastor.
From BBC • Mar. 17, 2026
One of the protesters who was arrested for disrupting the service at Cities Church is herself an ordained minister.
From Salon • Jan. 26, 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
I still had a great deal of little-sister worship for this big brother, five years older than I, an ordained minister and the only ten Boom who had ever been to college.
From "The Hiding Place" by Corrie ten Boom
Vocabulary lists containing ordained
"Romeo and Juliet" by William Shakespeare, Act IV
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