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Ordain meaning
To prearrange unalterably. | To decree. | To admit into the ministry, for example as a priest, bishop, minister or Buddhist monk, or to authorize as a rabbi.
Example sentences (20)
Both places ordain women as well as men as rabbis, and do not ordain cantors of either sex.
The editorial cites the example of the General Synod of Church of England when it voted to ordain women in 1992; the motion was carried by two votes.
Archbishop Shelton J. Fabre will ordain Deacon Nauert along with Deacons Matthew Millay, Michael Schultz, Van Tran and Yen Tran at 10 a.m. on the first day of June at St. Michael Church, 3705 Stone Lakes Drive.
The Commitments offer a solution to this, which is presented as 'freedom of conscience' -- no bishop would be forced to ordain such a person -- but they would have to "explore alternative national approaches" and "resist attempts" to discipline them.
Poplar Hill MBC will ordain Minister First Lady Maxine Ingram-Gaddy at 3 p.m. Everyone is invited.
Preynat’s trial comes amid new tensions in the Vatican, as retired Pope Benedict XVI insists in a new book on the “necessity” of priestly celibacy just as Pope Francis is weighing whether to ordain married men to address the Catholic priest shortage.
THE FACTS: “Partisan Democrats” didn’t ordain this.
Cardinal Muller said that when it comes to priestly ordination, it is not possible to ordain women.
In 2011, he tried to send a long letter with supporting documentation asking Rome for permission to ordain married, indigenous clergy.
The move to ordain married men was on the core issues that got voted for at the just concluded three-week meeting at the Vatican which discussed environmental and religious matters affecting the Amazon area.
We were just the first mainline denomination to ordain a gender nonbinary person.
All ministers in the ULC are also authorized and encouraged to ordain others as ministers in the church.
As a result of the American Revolution, John Wesley was compelled in 1784 to break with standard practice and ordain two of his lay preachers as presbyters, Thomas Vasey and Richard Whatcoat.
As such, open theists resolve the issue of human free will and God's sovereignty by claiming that God is sovereign because he does not ordain each human choice, but rather works in cooperation with his creation to bring about his will.
Because Hyrum was Smith's logical successor, Brigham Young later said of Hyrum, "Did Joseph Smith ordain any man to take his place.
Bishops may dispense with this rule and ordain men up to one year younger.
Buddhist texts record that the Buddha was reluctant to ordain women.
But if anyone shall ordain counter to this decree, he shall be liable to punishment.
During the same year, after Reform began to ordain female rabbis.
GC leaders have never taken the position that ordination of women is contrary to the Bible, but they have requested that no one ordain women until it is acceptable to all parts of the world church.