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In parts of the Anglican Communion where women cannot be ordained as priests or bishops but can be ordained as deacons, the position of archdeacon is effectively the most senior office an ordained woman can be appointed to.

He trained for ordained ministry at Ridley Hall, Cambridge, was ordained in 2006 and served his title at Gloucester Cathedral.

Instead of doctors of divine theology ordained by bishops and ruled by an absolutist pope in Rome, this new sacerdotal class was ordained with security clearances, i.e. access to secrets and sacred oaths to keep them.

All males who are living the standards of the church are generally considered for the priesthood and are ordained to the priesthood as early as age 12. Ordination occurs by a ceremony where hands are laid on the head of the one ordained.

Although one does not need to be an ordained Rabbi to be a Rebbe, most Rebbes today are ordained Rabbis.

Francis Asbury founded the Methodist Episcopal Church at the Baltimore Christmas Conference in 1784, Coke (already ordained in the Church of England) ordained Asbury deacon, elder, and bishop each on three successive days.

In 2005, Eli Cohen became the first openly gay rabbi ordained by the Jewish Renewal Movement, followed by Chaya Gusfield and Rabbi Lori Klein in 2006, who became the two first openly lesbian rabbis ordained by the Jewish Renewal movement.

Monks who have been ordained to the priesthood are called hieromonk (priest-monk); monks who have been ordained to the diaconate are called hierodeacon (deacon-monk).

They may make provision for an ordained cleric to help train and to admit some of their members, if needed, as altar servers, extraordinary ministers of Holy Communion, or lectors—all ministries which are now open to the non-ordained.

Those ordained as elders are members of the Order of Elders, and those ordained deacons are members of the Order of Deacons.

After he was ordained a priest in 1986 with the Society of the Divine Word, also known as the Divine Word Missionaries, Archbishop Kikuchi was sent to serve as a missionary priest in rural Ghana for eight years.

Because Ong had entered the Jesuit order in 1935, he devoted the subsequent years of his young life to his lengthy Jesuit formation - finally being ordained a Jesuit priest in 1946 - the year in which Ong turn thirty-four.

Black History Month: In 2009, Alysa Stanton became the first Black woman ordained as a rabbi.

Blase Cupich, of Omaha, Neb., was ordained the seventh Bishop of Rapid City by Cardinal James Hickey of Washington, DC.

Born and raised in Kent, the Reverend studied in Oxford, Cambridge, and Rome, before he was ordained deacon in 1979, and priest in 1980.

Cardinal Parolin was in Angola on Saturday, where he was ordained Archbishop-elect.

Deacon Ceneviva was ordained by His Eminence, Anthony Cardinal Bevilacqua, on June 4, 1989, at the Cathedral-Basilica of Saints Peter and Paul.

For there is no power but of God: the powers that be are ordained of God.

Geshe Kelsang Gyatso was ordained as a Buddhist monk in Tibet at the age of eight.

Gonzalez-Farias was ordained in 1990 and has held numerous positions in the church including pastor, parochial vicar, administrator, chaplain and priest, the indictment states.