ordination

Rome's scrambling to undo damage from changes to church law that lumped ordination of women priests with child sex abuse.

No period of preparation was necessary, at least in the beginning, for the ordination of an Aglipayan priest.

There he saw the ceremony of ordination performed, and expressed warm approbation of the Anglican ritual.

And the rejoicing thus variously represented is according to Divine ordination.

He told me himself, that ever since his ordination he has assumed what he calls a priestly garb.

His long vacations had ended, ordination was at hand, and his life-work would begin in the month of October.