priesthood
പൌരോഹിത്യം
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He is the first prison inmate to become a candidate for ordination to the priesthood in the Episcopal Church.
the office or position of a priest.
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Esler, a practising Catholic, says: " People aren't entering the 'priesthood' .
The average age for someone entering the 'priesthood' now is well in the forties.
For some time after its foundation, Manly was the only seminary in Australia preparing students for the secular 'priesthood' .
He attended a local church school and then went to train for the 'priesthood' at the Orthodox Seminary in Tbilisi.
The position of the church is that ordination to the 'priesthood' makes one a priest forever.
Catholics typically have a very high esteem for priests and the 'priesthood' .
Eddie was a member of the De La Salle order before joining the Diocesan 'priesthood' .
Both of them were priests, although Paudie later left the 'priesthood' , and took up a position as a teacher in Sligo.
He is the first prison inmate to become a candidate for ordination to the 'priesthood' in the Episcopal Church.
How could they have such an argument with someone who does not believe in religion or in 'priesthood' ?
These were followed by many more vocations to the religious life and to the 'priesthood' .
Martin Luther's notion of the 'priesthood' of all believers is particularly helpful here.
He prepared for the 'priesthood' in the Anglican Church at St Stephen's House, gaining a First in Theology.
The next generation of women, they said, would not face such barriers to the 'priesthood' .
there was relief among the Anglican 'priesthood'
The first woman rabbi predated the entry of women into the 'priesthood' by seventeen years and after a similar struggle for recognition.
Now a senior at Marquette University in Milwaukee, I have been considering the 'priesthood' for about two years.
the ordination of women to the 'priesthood'
Many years ago I felt the first stirring of a vocation to the 'priesthood' .
A diocesan spokesman, however, said neither man was on the track for the 'priesthood' .
I do not know whether or not we should have a married 'priesthood' right now.
The decision to ordain me to the 'priesthood' was made because they needed a priest for West Point.
This year eight men will be ordained in Ireland to the 'priesthood' of the Catholic Church.
These three were the most junior of the 'priesthood' , and generally got the duff jobs.
Women were admitted to the 'priesthood' in the Church of England in 1996.
After making his vows with the community, he felt the deeper call to 'priesthood' .
In a bid to attract men to the 'priesthood' , the Catholic Church here is increasingly tapping into the Internet.
Canon Richard Phillips celebrated the golden jubilee of his ordination to the 'priesthood' on the 14th June.
Over the last ten years I think they've been very well received in dioceses that have started to ordain women to the 'priesthood' .
In the absence of church or 'priesthood' , the execution of the project was left to the uncertainties of lay enthusiasts.
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