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Tai Zong establishes a new Daoist abbey, out of gratitude for Daoist priests who had apparently cured the crown prince of an illness.

André-Joseph Léonard

Priests who abused children in their care, Leonard went on television to say, must be made aware of what they did, "but if they're no longer working, if they have no responsibilities, I'm not sure that exercising a sort of vengeance that will have no concrete result is humane." On 31 September 2010, the bishop of Antwerp, Johan Bonny, said this was "a personal point of view" and not that of the church.

Armenian cemetery in Hyderabad, India

Total of 19 Armenian are buried in this cemetery, including two priests Rev Johannes (1680) and Rev Simon (1724).

Ars-sur-Formans

The reception desk and the spiritual activities of the sanctuary are organised by the priests of the sanctuary: the congregation of Benedictine nuns called the Tyburn Nuns and the Brothers of the Holy Family of Belley.

Association of Catholic Priests

The President of the Swiss Bishops Conference, Norbert Brunner, has claimed that all Swiss bishops are in favour of married priests.

Association of Croatian Orthodox Believers

The association marks anniversaries of death of Patriarch Germogen of Croatia and other Croatian Orthodox priests killed by the Yugoslav Partisans in 1945.

Brazil Red

The plot of this veritable epic is set in 1555, on a small island in the Guanabara Bay of Rio de Janeiro, where an odd French expeditionary force, made up of sailors, craftsmen, priests, ex-convicts and a Quixotic knight, has just landed.

Catholic Church doctrine on the ordination of women

The Vatican's Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith issued and published on May 29, 2008, in the Vatican newspaper L'Osservatore Romano, a decree signed by Cardinal William Levada, on the existing ban on women priests by asserting that women "priests" and the bishops who ordain them would be automatically excommunicated "latae sententiae".

Cebuano theater

Within the year, two more plays were written by Sotto: Elena, which deals of a girl's love for an insurrecto; and Aurora, which deals with a scandal involving the priests and nuns of the Colegio de la Inmaculada Concepcion.

Council of Tours

A Council of Tours in 813 decided that priests should preach sermons in the rusticam romanam linguam or Vulgar Latin understood by the people, instead of in classical Latin as the common people could no longer understand the latter.

Cunhambebe

The war waged by the Tamoyo Confederation was strongly affecting the Portuguese colonisation efforts, so the two Portuguese Jesuit priests who had founded São Paulo dos Campos de Piratininga (which became the present-day megalopolis of São Paulo), Manoel da Nóbrega (1517–1570) and José de Anchieta (1534–1597) started a peace mission by doing a high risk visit to Cunhambebe's village.

Denis Goulet

Goulet's work drew its major inspiration from the writings and examples of a group French religious intellectuals including Charles de Foucauld, Simone Weil, Louis-Joseph Lebret and the “worker priests” of the last century and from the hunger and thirst for justice of the gospel of Matthew.

François Gény

Two of his brothers became priests, and another one became a teacher in the University of Roma.

Guest House

The one in Rochester, Minnesota is for priests and male religious and the other, in Lake Orion, Michigan, is for women religious.

History of the Jews in Nigeria

Igbo oral legends also state that certain Nri families may be descendants of Levitical priests who migrated from North Africa.

Institute of Christ the King Sovereign Priest

Then-Archbishop Raymond Leo Burke of the Archdiocese of St. Louis ordained two American priests in the United States for the first time at the Cathedral Basilica of Saint Louis, Missouri on the feast day of the Most Sacred Heart of Jesus, June 15, 2007.

James Neale

Many of Neale's descendants became Jesuit priests, including Father Bennett Neale, Archbishop Leonard Neale, Francis Neale and Father Charles Neale.

José Antonio Laureano de Zubiría

He urged the priests to make greater efforts to baptize Pueblo children, and to bring the Pueblos into the church.

Joseph Demarco

From February 1773, he organised a group of fellow priests who, eventually, took up arms against Francisco Ximenes de Texada, the Grand Master of the Knights Hospitallers, in protest for retracting some of their rights and privileges.

Konrad Martin

He founded, in 1857, at Heiligenstadt a second seminary for boys and introduced the general examination for priests.

Kulananda Dhakal

Kulananda Dhakal, was the most famous priests and astrologers of Prithvi Narayan Shah who united Nepal.

Kurt Krenn

Kurt Krenn (28 June 1936 – 25 January 2014) was an Austrian Roman Catholic prelate and Bishop who ran a seminary for priests in Sankt Pölten, near Vienna.

La Reine Soleil

In defiance of danger the two teenagers travel down the Nile to the burning-hot desert dunes, courageously facing the mercenary Zannanza and priests of Amun Ra, who are conspiring to overthrow the pharaoh because of his rejection of their god.

Luke Wadding

Wadding collected the funds for the establishment of the College of St. Isidore in Rome, for the education of Irish priests, opened 24 June 1625, with four lecturers—Anthony O'Hicidh of a famous literary family in Thomond, Martin Breathnach from Donegal, Patrick Fleming from Louth, and John Punch from Cork.

Miles Prance

Finally, after being visited by William Boys, Gilbert Burnet, and William Lloyd, he confessed and said that two Irish priests, "Fitzgerald" and "Kelly", told him of a plot to kill Godfrey.

Moxo people

Jesuit priests arriving from Santa Cruz de la Sierra began evangelizing native peoples of the region in the 1670s.

Orthodoxy in Norway

The Patriarchal Exarchate for Orthodox Parishes of Russian Tradition in Western Europe has a total of three priests and one hierodeacon in Norway, two of the priests residing in the Oslo area and one at Greipstad in Songdalen near Kristiansand.

Orthodoxy in the Republic of Ireland

Since 2010, the Romanian Orthodox parish of Ballsbridge has been operating from two alternate locations in Blanchardstown: three recently appointed priests hold the liturgy there every Sunday.

Palani Murugan temple

Housed in the garbhagriham, the sanctum sanctorum, of the temple, the deity may be approached and handled only by the temple's priests, who are members of the Gurukkal community of Palani, and hold hereditary rights of sacerdotal worship at the temple.

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.

Presbytery

Presbyterium, a body of ordained, active priests in the Roman Catholic or Anglican churches

Ramihrdus of Cambrai

Ramihrdus of Cambrai, a known priest who had been practicing his own sects of religion, was accused of heresy in 1076 or 1077 for being unwilling to accept communion from priests, including the bishop, after being summoned to court because he believed that the priesthood was corrupt.

Renato Corti

In November 2007 Corti suspended 3 priests who refused to celebrate Mass on Sunday, according to the newspaper La Stampa.

Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Portland in Oregon

In response to this petition, missionary priests, Rev. Francis Xavier Norbert Blanchet and Rev. Modeste Demers arrived at Fort Vancouver on November 24, 1838.

Roman Catholicism in Abkhazia

After the Abkhaz war in 1993 Sukhumi Catholic community because of the inability of service priests from Georgia was transferred to the care of the diocese of Saint Clement in Saratov.

Rosminians

:two English priests, Richard Richardson, organizer of a temperance campaign, and enroller in it of 70,000 names, and Joseph Hirst, member of the Royal Archaeological Institute;

Russet

Humble squires and priests, such as Franciscans wore russet as a sign of humility but preferred a good quality russet such as that made in Colchester, which was better than the cheapest cloth.

Russian Orthodox Church

The Orthodox priests Gleb Yakunin, Sergiy Zheludkov and others spent years in Soviet prisons and exile for their efforts in defending freedom of worship.

S. K. Venkataranga

He fought to resolve the disputes in the Melkote shrine between Thenkalai and Vadakalai priests and was a devout worshipper at Biligirirangaswamy Temple in Biligirirangan Hills and Venugopala Krishna in Malleswaram temple.

Scrip of Edo period Japan

Japan's first banknotes, called Yamada Hagaki (山田羽書), were issued around 1600 by Shinto priests also working as merchants in the Ise-Yamada (modern Mie Prefecture), in exchange for silver.

Sesostris

In Herodotus' Histories there appears a story told by Egyptian priests about a Pharaoh Sesostris, who once led an army northward overland to Asia Minor, then fought his way westward until he crossed into Europe, where he defeated the Scythians and Thracians (possibly in modern Romania and Bulgaria).

Sons of Zadok

Rabbinic literature indicates that there were numerous priestly families of Zadokite lineage - amongst them David HaKohain Bar Isha, who upon the Spanish expulsion in 1492, emigrated to the town of Debdou in Morocco - a town purported to have consisted of a large population of Jewish priests.

St John the Evangelist, Upper Norwood

Among the previous incumbent priests have been Rev. Thomas Helmore (1873-1874), a noted authority on plainsong and English choral music; and Rev. Cecil Horsley, who was vicar from 1934 until 1938, when he was appointed Bishop of Colombo in the Church of Ceylon, later becoming Bishop of Gibraltar.

The Abbey, Beckington

The Abbey, Beckington in Somerset, UK was built as a monastic grange and also used as a college for priests; the building was begun in 1502, but after the Dissolution of the Monasteries it became a private house.

Theresa Carpinelli

In early 2005, Carpinelli conducted an online investigation into the source of allegations that in the aftermath of an earthquake in Lisbon, Portugal Catholic priests roamed city streets, hanging those they thought responsible for the quake.

Thomas Maxfield

He was born in Stafford gaol, one of the younger sons of William Macclesfield of Chesterton and Maer and Aston, Staffordshire; William Macclesfield was a Catholic recusant, condemned to death in 1587 for harbouring priests, one of whom was his brother Humphrey.

Vukolaj Jovanov Radonjić

K. Viala De Somier, a French colonel, commander of Herceg Novi, Kotor Governor and Head of General Staff other divisions Illyrian army in Dubrovnik, visited Montenegro 1810.godine and gubernadur Vukolaj Radonjic to Njegusi and as he says: "vernacular residence and center of temporal power in Montenegro," For the first twenty steps from the house to meet me came gubernadur accompanied two priests and the elders of the people under sixty weapons .

William Edwin Franklin

Four priests were named Chaplains to His Holiness, eight lay men were honored as Knights of St. Gregory the Great, three women received the honor of Dames of the Order of St. Gregory the Great and 11 men and women received the Cross Pro Ecclesia et Pontifice.

Zerubbabel

According to the authors of the Book of Ezra, “when the seventh month came… Jeshua son of Jozadak along with his fellow-priests, and Zerubbabel son of Shealtiel, with his colleagues, set to work to build the altar of the God of Israel”.


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