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Ordination is the
process by
which individuals are consecrated, that is, set
apart and
elevated from the
laity class to the clergy, who are thus then authorized...
- The
ordination of
women to
ministerial or
priestly office is an
increasingly common practice among some
contemporary major religious groups. It remains...
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writes about the
ordination of a
certain Zachæus as
bishop by the
imposition of
Simon Peter Bar-Jonah's hands. The
words bishop and
ordination are used in...
- In the
liturgical traditions of the
Catholic Church, the term
ordination refers to the
means by
which a
person is
included in one of the holy
orders of...
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Ordination or
gradient analysis, in
multivariate analysis, is a
method complementary to data clustering, and used
mainly in
exploratory data
analysis (rather...
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history of women's
ordination in the world's
religious traditions. It is not an
exhaustive list of all
historic or
contemporary ordinations of women. See also:...
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Eastern or
Western Catholicism, they may
marry as
laymen before their ordination as clergy.
Priesthood is open only to men;
women are excluded. The Catholic...
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Semikhah (Hebrew: סְמִיכָה) is the
traditional Jewish name for
rabbinic ordination. The
original semikhah was the
formal "transmission of authority" from...
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designates an
established civil body or
corporation with a hierarchy, and
ordination means legal incorporation into an order. In context, therefore, a group...
- In Christianity, the
ordination of
women has been
taking place in an
increasing number of
Protestant and Old
Catholic churches,
starting in the 20th century...
