Example sentences of "of [art] ordination of [noun pl] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Archbishop of Canterbury , Dr Robert Runcie , told the synod it should receive the report in favour of the ordination of women with a ‘ steady nerve ’ . |
| 2 | If so , we hope this booklet will explain why the issue of the ordination of women to the priesthood is both important and urgent . |
| 3 | Men as well as women are now realizing that the issue of the ordination of women to the priesthood is a gospel issue . |
| 4 | THE Church of England Synod voted on November 11 in favour of the ordination of women to the priesthood . |
| 5 | I see that I ( who had written the statement in favour of the ordination of women to the priesthood which was circulated to all members of the Synod before the vote , l5 a statement to which Leonard may well in part have been responding ) wrote in the margin of my copy of his speech : ‘ Have microscopes . ’ |
| 6 | In an article written in support of the ordination of women to the priesthood in the Episcopal Church in the United States , Richard Norris , whose scholarship I have just mentioned , argues that the tenets of patristic Christology are such that it can not be said that a baptized woman is differently related than is a man to Jesus as the Christ . |
| 7 | On May 17 , 1990 , the general synod of the Church of Ireland voted in favour of the ordination of women as priests and bishops . |
| 8 | For three years from 1977 I worked all hours , sacrificing my career and my free time , for the cause of the ordination of women in the British Anglican churches . |