How to Use ordination in a Sentence

ordination

noun

• After his ordination, he will be assigned to a local parish.
• He is a candidate for ordination.
• David is one week away from ordination, and the doubts in his head are getting louder.
  — Maggie Fremont, Vulture, 3 Oct. 2021
• At first the mobs came for the clergy, who had sworn loyalty to the king upon ordination.
  — Caitlin Fitz, WSJ, 11 July 2017
• Canon Law reserves the homily to a priest or deacon in virtue of their ordination.
  — Fr. Goran Jovicic, National Review, 13 June 2021
• The inside story of the two years that shook Facebook’s unchecked ordination.
  — Jessi Hempel, WIRED, 21 Mar. 2018
• That requires a large team, and brings problems of co-ordination.
  — The Economist, 19 Mar. 2020
• Before ordination, there is the choice to marry or to be celibate.
  — Landon Mion, Fox News, 14 Mar. 2023
• The movement began with the ordination of seven women on the Danube River in 2002.
  — Tim Funk, charlotteobserver, 30 Apr. 2017
• For years, the diocese was planning to build a new cathedral to have a central place for special events such as ordinations.
  — Washington Post, 9 July 2019
• This week marks the 30th anniversary of my ordination as a rabbi.
  — Rabbi Dan Fink, idahostatesman, 7 June 2018
• This year is also the 50th anniversary of women’s ordination in the ECLA.
  — oregonlive, 14 Dec. 2019
• That delayed the co-ordination of the region’s schedules.
  — The Economist, 7 June 2018
• For Sartain, the May 28 ordination was a homecoming of sorts.
  — Frank E. Lockwood, Arkansas Online, 4 June 2022
• The framed diploma and ordination certificate were both leaning against a wall behind the door.
  — Mark Curnutte, Cincinnati.com, 7 May 2018
• In her book, Zagano makes the case for the ordination of women deacons as the next obvious step toward full equality for women in the church.
  — Kirsten Powers, CNN, 31 Mar. 2022
• Yet today, Infanger is less than two months shy of ordination.
  — Clara Hatcher, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 30 Mar. 2018
• As an act of consecration and setting aside, the anointing of kings was in many ways comparable to the ordination of high priests.
  — Town & Country, 7 May 2023
• Mr Guterres has sought to break down silos and improve co-ordination.
  — The Economist, 20 June 2020
• Other groups pressing for women’s ordination to the priesthood are also in Rome, even though the pope has taken the subject of women priests off the table.
  — Nicole Winfield and Trisha Thomas, The Christian Science Monitor, 3 Oct. 2023
• Many of them still forbid the ordination of women; some don’t allow women to read Scripture or speak from the pulpit, or teach a Sunday-school class if there are men present.
  — Cressida Leyshon, The New Yorker, 31 July 2023
• The core arguments against ordination as deacon, priest or bishop of more than half of all Catholics are far from persuasive.
  — Kirsten Powers, CNN, 31 Mar. 2022
• But on the issue of the ordination of women, Francis has appeared to put himself squarely on the side of his predecessors.
  — Delia Gallagher and Lauren Said-Moorhouse, CNN, 8 June 2018
• Co-ordination can maintain the design-to-cost focus from the get-go, and help overcome the hurdles in the way of the commercialization of syn-bio technologies.
  — Maxime Courtaux, Fortune, 7 Oct. 2022
• Many St Joseph’s parishioners and staff attended the ordination Mass at the Basilica.
  — Melissa Whatley, baltimoresun.com, 13 June 2018
• The Episcopal Church approved the ordination of women in 1976.
  — al, 27 June 2020
• Buddhist women began to seek change and request full ordination from the East Asian tradition as early as the 1970s.
  — Jue Liang, The Conversation, 9 Dec. 2021
• On his first day as bishop, during a video call, Rohrer said he was misgendered and ridiculed for featuring drag queens at his ordination.
  — Deepa Bharath, Fortune, 3 Mar. 2023
• The issues under discussion will include priestly celibacy, married priests, the blessing of gay couples, the extension of sacraments to the divorced and the ordination of female deacons.
  — Jason Horowitz, New York Times, 2 Oct. 2023
• These groups represent issues such as ending clergy abuse, the women's ordination conference and more.
  — Kiara Alfonseca, ABC News, 2 Oct. 2023

Last Updated: 28 Oct 2024