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Holy orders

The Roman Catholic Church judged Anglican orders invalid when Pope Leo XIII in 1896 wrote in Apostolicae Curae that Anglican orders lack validity because the rite by which priests were ordained was not correctly worded from 1547 to 1553 and from 1558 to the time of Archbishop William Laud, (Archbishop of Canterbury 1633–1645).


Alexis-Armand Charost

He was ordained to the priesthood on May 19, 1883, and then taught at the School of Sainte-Croix until 1892.

Ariel Edgardo Torrado Mosconi

Born in Veinticinco de Mayo, Torrado Mosconi was ordained to the priesthood on November 17, 1990, for the archdiocese of Buenos Aires.

Bargil Pixner

Pixner was ordained priest in 1946 in Brixen, immediately prior to leaving for missionary work in the Philippines, where he headed a leprosy center in Santa Barbara, Iloilo for the next eight years.

Borys Gudziak

He was ordained on 26 November 1998 in the Cathedral of St. George in Lviv by Bishop Sofron (Mudry), O.S.B.M. and incardinated in the Major Archeparchy of Lviv of the Ukrainians.

Brawling Act 1551

This Act was repealed, so far as it related to persons not in Holy Orders, by section 5 of the Ecclesiastical Courts Jurisdiction Act 1860.

Church of the Province of Melanesia

The church in its canons accepts and teaches the seven sacraments of the Church, Baptism, Holy Eucharist, Confirmation, Penance, Holy Matrimony, Holy Orders, and Anointing of the Sick.

Dimas Lara Barbosa

Born in Boa Esperança, Lara Barbosa was ordained to the priesthood on December 3, 1988, serving in São José dos Campos.

General Synod of the Anglican Church of Canada

Presently, there are twenty-two numbered canons, dealing with issues as prosaic as the name of the church, to ones touching on doctrine, such as matrimony and Holy Orders, to judicial disciplinary proceedings.

George Musey

He was ordained a priest on May 22, 1952 by Bishop Wendelin Nold of Galveston.

Henri-Marie-Gaston Boisnormand de Bonnechose

Entering the magistracy, he became attorney-general for the district of Besançon in 1830, but having received holy orders at Strasburg, under the episcopate of Jean François Marie Lepappe de Trevern, he was made professor of sacred eloquence in the school of higher studies founded at Besançon by Cardinal de Rohan.

Hilary of Chichester

As perhaps as many as a fifth of the population of England may have been in some form of clerical orders, including the minor ones, allowing this would have diminished the king's authority.

Jean Verdier

He was ordained to the priesthood on April 9, 1887, and then taught at the seminary of Périgueux until 1898, serving as its rector from 1898 to 1912.

Jean-Louis Bruguès

He entered the Order of Preachers, made his novitiate in Lille (1968-1969), so he made his first religious profession on 29 September 1969 and was ordained a priest 22 June 1975 in Toulouse.

John Gabriel Perboyre

He was ordained to the priesthood on 23 September 1825, in the chapel of the Daughters of Charity, by Louis Dubourg, S.S., newly installed as the Bishop of Montauban, and on the following day he presided for the first time at Mass.

John Hothby

He appears to have left England after 1435 but most of the references to him in surviving sources are to the last twenty years of his life, by which time he had taken holy orders as a Carmelite monk and he claimed in his own work to have travelled in Britain, Germany, France, Spain and Italy, before he went to a monastery in Ferrara and then in 1467 took employment in Lucca, probably teaching music at the Cathedral.

Konrad Zdarsa

Born in Hainichen, Zdarsa was ordained to the priesthood on March 16, 1974, serving in Dresden-Meißen.

Laurence Sheil

Born in Ireland, Sheil was sent to the British Colony of New South Wales in Australia after ordained a priest.

Luis Juan Tomé

Born in Buenos Aires, Tomé was ordained to the priesthood on April 16, 1938, serving in the archdiocese of Buenos Aires.

Major orders

The term major orders or greater orders was for some centuries applied in the Roman Catholic Church to distinguish what the Council of Trent also called holy orders from what at that time were termed "minor orders" or "lesser orders".

Marcel Lefebvre

On 18 September 1947 he was consecrated a bishop in his family's parish church in Tourcoing by Achille Liénart (who had previously ordained him a priest); acting as co-consecrators were Bishop Jean-Baptiste Fauret, C.S.Sp.

Maxwell Henry Close

He was educated at Weymouth and at Trinity College, Dublin, where he graduated in 1846; and two years later he entered holy orders.

Missionaries of La Salette

Those men called to serve the People of God in the Priesthood take a courses in philosophy and theology after which follows ordination to the diaconate and the priesthood; final vows for those called to Holy Orders come just before the diaconate.

Nimattullah Kassab

Kassab made his religious profession of vows on 14 November 1830, after which he was sent to the Monastery of Saints Cyprian and Justina in Kfifan, in the Batroun District, to pursue higher studies in preparation for ordination, which took place on Christmas Day 1833.

Presbyterium

The presbyterium is most visible during the ordination of new priests and bishops and the Mass of the Chrism: the Holy Thursday Mass where the blessing of the oils used in the sacraments of Baptism, Confirmation, Anointing of the Sick, and Holy Orders takes place.

Reinhard Marx

Born in Geseke, North Rhine-Westphalia, Cardinal Marx was ordained to the priesthood, for the Archdiocese of Paderborn, by Archbishop Johannes Joachim Degenhardt on 2 June 1979.

Stanisław Ryłko

He was ordained to the priesthood by Cardinal Karol Wojtyła (later Pope John Paul II) on 30 March 1969, in Wawel Cathedral, and then did pastoral work in Poronin until 1971.

Stéphanos I Sidarouss

He was educated at houses of studies belonging to this religious institute in France, where he was ordained to the priesthood on July 22, 1939, in Dax.

Thomas Joseph Tobin

Tobin was ordained to the priesthood by Bishop Vincent Leonard on July 21, 1973, and then served as an assistant pastor at St. Vitus Parish in New Castle until 1979.

Walmor Oliveira de Azevedo

Born in Cocos, Oliveira de Azevedo was ordained to the priesthood on September 9, 1977, serving in Juiz de Fora.


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1105 in Ireland

Cellach Ua Sinaig inherits the position of Abbot of Armagh (the seventh in a series of members of the Ua Sinaig family, who had held the position without taking holy orders, and several of whom had been married).

Alfred John Church

He took holy orders and was an assistant-master at Merchant Taylors' School from 1857-70.

Alistair Ferguson Ritchie

He trained for Holy Orders at Bishop’s Hostel, Liverpool and was ordained deacon in 1912, and priest in 1913 .

Battle of Myton

William Melton, the Archbishop of York, set about mustering an army, which included a large number of men in holy orders.

Charles Mayne Young

Julian took holy orders, serving as Chaplain at Hampton Court Palace and Rector of Ilmington, Warwickshire, and married, on 26 April 1832, Elizabeth Anne Georgiana, daughter of James Willis (of that family of Atherfield, Isle of Wight), Consul-General- later Governor- of Senegambia.

Clement Barksdale

He entered holy orders, and in 1637 acted as chaplain of Lincoln College.

François Hédelin, abbé d'Aubignac

Francois Hédelin was educated in law, but after practising some time at Nemours, he abandoned law, took holy orders, and was appointed tutor to one of Richelieu's nephews, the duc de Fronsac.

John Brereton

On his return to England and after the publication of his account, he appears to have lived a quiet life in holy orders, becoming Rector of Brightwell, Suffolk, in 1619, and probably he is the same man who became Rector of St Peter Mancroft in Norwich and who died in 1632.

John Cunningham, 15th Earl of Glencairn

For some time Lord John Cunningham was an officer in the 14th Royal Dragoons, but afterwards entered into Holy Orders of the Church of England.

John Le Neve

He took holy orders, aged 41, and was presented by his patron William Fleetwood to the Lincolnshire rectory of Thornton-le-Moor in January 1722.

Peter of Saint Joseph Betancur

Unable to receive holy orders, he became a Franciscan tertiary in the convent of Costa Rica in Antigua Guatemala, and took the name "Peter of Saint Joseph".

Pierre Daniel Huet

He took holy orders in 1676, and two years later the king made him abbot of Aulnay.

Rosguill

Colm Cille was a nobleman born at Gartan, a great-grandson of Conall Gulban, he took holy orders and began proselytising throughout Ireland.

Sir William Godolphin, 1st Baronet

He represented the family borough of Helston in Parliament from 1665 until 1679, but his career was overshadowed by that of his younger brother, Sidney, who rose to be First Lord of the Treasury and was granted a peerage and later an earldom; another brother, Henry, took holy orders and ended as Dean of St Paul's and Provost of Eton.

Thomas Hobbes Scott

After his return to England Scott took holy orders and became rector of Whitfield, Northumberland, in 1822.

Trampas Whiteman

Since the founding of the Council, Trampas has worked with Sovereign Press/Margaret Weis Productions as a designer on the Dragonlance sourcebooks for 3rd edition, including Holy Orders of the Stars, Knightly Orders of Ansalon, and Races of Ansalon.

Weldon Champneys

Champneys took holy orders and in 1881 was vicar of Haslingden, rural dean for Whalley and proctor in convocation for the Archdeaconry of Blackburn.