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Because the Orange County megachurch has ordained three women as associate pastors and named Stacie Wood, wife of the church’s senior pastor, Andy Wood, a teaching pastor.

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 26, 2023

His congregation has since grown to about 200 people, and he has ordained other ministers remotely from his Virginia home and baptized believers who are unable to leave their houses because of illnesses.

From Seattle Times • Jan. 31, 2022

"I am very glad that the Speaker of the House has ordained that the investigation go forward," Carter said.

From Fox News • Oct. 8, 2019

Like many other Protestant denominations, the Church of Sweden has ordained woman for decades — its head, Archbishop Antje Jackelen, is a woman.

From Time • Nov. 2, 2016

Nature in one of her beneficent moods has ordained that even death has some antidote to its own terrors.

From "Dracula" by Bram Stoker