What does priesting mean?
Priesting means (rare) The ordination of a priest..
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Pronunciation varies by accent · noun
(rare) The ordination of a priest..
I’m never unmoved by a priesting and I found myself thinking a lot about the power to bind and loose which is bestowed at ordination.
Methodists remained unimpressed by the tortuous path that its Covenant partner had taken towards allowing women into the episcopate (finally achieved in 2014, twenty years after the first priestings of women and fourteen years after the synodical process began).
“My Son,” saith he, “honour God & the King ; but I say, honour God and the bishop as high-priest, bearing the image of God according to his ruling, and of Christ, according to his priesting, and after him honour the king.”
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Priesting means (rare) The ordination of a priest..
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I’m never unmoved by a priesting and I found myself thinking a lot about the power to bind and loose which is bestowed at ordination.
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