Meanings of episcopal ordination in English

He attended today's episcopal ordination as did his predecessor Bishop Joseph Duffy.

The clause which admitted Presbyterian ministers to hold benefices without episcopal ordination was rejected.

The episcopal ordination of the new Bishop of Clogher Larry Duffy took place at St Macartan's Cathedral in Monaghan on Sunday.

The first question of importance was the imposition of episcopal ordination as a necessary condition of the tenure of any ecclesiastical office.

The corruptions of the Church had all grown out of one root-thenotion that the Christian priesthood possesses mystical power, conferred through episcopal ordination.

Episcopal ordination was now, for the first time, made an indispensable qualification for church preferment.

On August 3 was celebrated at Middletown, Conn., the centenary of the first Episcopal ordination held in this country.

Peter Muhlenberg viewed his Episcopal ordination as a purely civil affair, and, though claimed by the Episcopalians, he always regarded himself as a Lutheran.