reordination

Some, and perhaps the majority, remained in their benefices without reordination.

He said that his reordination in Istanbul last month had been a spiritual rebirth.

The Vatican has already taken, following reordination, several dozen rebel Anglican priests, some of them married.

At the time, this did not require rebaptism or reordination, as each group accepted the priesthood and sacraments of the other.

Reordination is the second ordination of a cleric whose original ordination is questionable.

The current praxis is to require reordination and regularization of orders if ordained outside episcopal ordination.

He had taken the oath of allegiance, but refusing reordination he was incapable of preferment.

The reordination into the Catholic church of married Anglican priests has pointed up the fact that priestly celibacy is not a doctrine, but a discipline.

In contrast, the REC allowed for examination in points of doctrine and discipline for validation of conformity yet without reordination.

The monks of these two traditions were then defrocked and given the choice of either returning to the laity permanently or attempting reordination under the Maha Viharaya tradition as sāmaṇeras.

They argued against the pope's example of John Clement Gordon, stating that - among other things - Gordon's desire for reordination had its roots in the discredited Nag's Head Fable.

John Hunwicke, who joined the ordinariate, had his reordination "deferred" owing to unspecified comments allegedly made by him on his Internet blog site, but was subsequently ordained to the Catholic presbyterate.

There are factions in the Holy See waiting for such evidence of Kindred activity to justify the reordination of the Inquisitorsand you may very well have given the witchfinders their new lease on life!

In 1997, the Charismatic Episcopal Church sought and acquired reconsecration and reordination of all of its clergy by the Brazilian Catholic Apostolic Church, thus strengthening their lines of apostolic succession.

In 881-82 Pope John VIII prescribed the reordination of Bishop Joseph of Vercelli, who had been ordained by the Archbishop of Milan, then under the ban of excommunication.

Anglican clergy who join the Orthodox Church are reordained; but [some Orthodox Churches hold that] if Anglicanism and Orthodoxy were to reach full unity in the faith, perhaps such reordination might not be found necessary.

The decision to require reordination was very unpopular, and those affected at sees distant from Rome not only ignored the synod's instructions, but wrote letters both condemning the revoking of ordinations and justifying validity of the original ordinations.

The founders of the uniting church wanted to have a period of 30 years before its full consummation, so it accepted presbyters ordained by the different denominations without any reordination or unifying service; this is one of the unique features of the church.

The Anglican requirement, dating back to the 17th century, that all members of the clergy must be ordained by bishops in the line of apostolic succession, would be suspended so that Evangelical Lutheran Church clergy members could function in Episcopal congregations without reordination.

In the same year he presided over provincial synods at Salerno, Siponto and Vercelli, and in September revisited his native Germany, returning to Rome in time for a third Easter synod, at which the question of the reordination of those who had been ordained by simonists was considered.