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    denominations, holy orders are the ordained ministries of bishop, priest (presbyter), and deacon, and the sacrament or rite by which candidates are ordained to those...
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    Isaac Newton (category Articles prone to spam from December 2018)
    Christian who privately rejected the doctrine of the Trinity. He refused to take holy orders in the Church of England, unlike most members of the Cambridge faculty...
    144 KB (14,775 words) - 08:44, 19 October 2024
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    John Donne (category Converts to Anglicanism from Roman Catholicism)
    ordained Anglican deacon and then priest, although he did not want to take holy orders and only did so because the king ordered it. He served as a member...
    51 KB (5,822 words) - 19:30, 31 October 2024
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    Cambridge (United Kingdom), which trains men and women intending to take Holy Orders as deacon or priest of the Church of England, and members of the...
    7 KB (633 words) - 02:39, 26 October 2024
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    John of Capistrano (category Diplomats of the Holy See)
    that the marriage was never consummated and received permission to take holy orders. Together with James of the Marches, John entered the Order of Friars...
    16 KB (1,825 words) - 12:05, 26 October 2024
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    Pope Alexander IV for refusing to take holy orders, Philip raised an army to defend his title. In 1250, Ulrich agreed to fight for Philip's cause in return...
    8 KB (1,069 words) - 20:19, 5 October 2024
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    was in the process of conversion from Roman Catholicism to Anglicanism, and would take holy orders in 1615 despite profound reluctance and significant self-doubt...
    22 KB (2,652 words) - 11:38, 22 January 2024
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    becoming piombatore, which committed him to attend on the pope most days, to travel with him and to take holy orders as a friar, despite having a wife and...
    37 KB (4,570 words) - 19:08, 28 October 2024
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    dedicated to a Christian purpose. The first orders of knights were religious orders that were founded to protect and guide pilgrims to the Holy Land. The...
    41 KB (5,248 words) - 00:14, 22 October 2024
  • The orders, decorations, and medals of the Holy See include titles, chivalric orders, distinctions and medals honoured by the Holy See, with the Pope as...
    25 KB (3,085 words) - 07:59, 11 October 2024
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    non-Christian religions to denote holy persons committed to an ascetic lifestyle, which may include members of religious orders and individual holy persons. The...
    7 KB (839 words) - 17:13, 1 October 2024
  • and the nickname he is known by came from his job-title. He had to take holy orders for the purpose, despite having a wife and two sons. The position...
    11 KB (988 words) - 15:26, 26 October 2024
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    and he was prepared to take Holy Orders for the purpose; but the project lapsed through his being summoned away from Venice in 1547 to paint Charles V and...
    55 KB (6,559 words) - 20:38, 31 October 2024
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    Ceremonies of the Holy See. The term equestrian in this context is consistent with its use for orders of knighthood of the Holy See, referring to the chivalric...
    67 KB (6,948 words) - 18:50, 25 October 2024
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    for boys from any school. At the same time all formal obligation to take Holy Orders – unenforced since the 17th century – was removed. The statutes were...
    57 KB (6,134 words) - 03:15, 25 September 2024
  • promoted lieutenant on 23 Feb. 1772. In 1779 he decided to take holy orders, and was appointed to the living of Wrington in Somerset, the birthplace of...
    3 KB (436 words) - 19:37, 5 January 2024
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    Clement VII sent a dispensation to James V dated 30 August 1534 that allowed four of the children to take holy orders when they came of age. The document...
    59 KB (7,377 words) - 23:56, 31 October 2024
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    Constans II (category Articles containing Ancient Greek (to 1453)-language text)
    could oust him from the throne; he therefore obliged Theodosius to take holy orders and later had him killed in 660. Constans' sons Constantine, Heraclius...
    30 KB (3,075 words) - 05:18, 25 October 2024
  • naval officer, who chose to take holy orders and work on the Caribbean island of St Christopher (now St Kitts), returned to England in 1781. In the West...
    3 KB (368 words) - 13:26, 30 March 2024
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    degree in 1796. Smith planned to read for the bar, but his father disagreed and he was reluctantly compelled to take holy orders. He was ordained at Oxford...
    19 KB (2,600 words) - 21:52, 22 September 2024
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