Word: ordain
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...candidate came forward-pretty, blonde Britta Olen, 30, daughter of a vicar and already fully qualified for ordination. Scheduled to be married by year's end and to do mission work in South Africa with her missionary husband, she hopes she will find a bishop to ordain her before she leaves...
...provide a center and library for U.S. students of Zen. She ran into an unexpected obstacle when the Daitokuji Temple insisted that the new center be designated as the restored sub-temple of Daitokuji. The solution, proposed by the Abbot of Daitokuji to a flabbergasted Ruth Fuller Sasaki: ordain her as Buddhist priest and install her as head of the sub-temple...
...Call. For one thing, Belin told reporters that he was a graduate of the University of Arkansas. The St. Louis Post-Dispatch checked with the university, found that no Clyde Belin had ever attended. Belin also said he was ordained a Baptist minister at the Southern Baptist Conference in Hermitage, Ark. The Arkansas Baptist State Convention not only denied the existence of the conference but added that conferences do not ordain ministers. Belin said" that he had earned three theology degrees from the Southern Bible Institute in New Orleans between 1929 and 1931. But the nearest thing New Orleans...
...open split between the old guard and the church's young, liberal pastors, ailing Archbishop Yngve Brilioth, primate of the state church, suggested that the Bible does not absolutely forbid women clergy men and that "I do not consider it unthinkable that the Swedish church will one day ordain women priests." But he added that the admission of women ministers must come as a result of whole hearted approval by the clergy, not because of political pressure from Parliament. He questioned whether many of Sweden's women wanted to become ministers anyway, noted that in Denmark, which...
Last week the General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church (see below) voted to ordain women, but left the final decision on the matter up to the local presbyteries. Moreover, the cause of the distaff dominae got a new boost from Britain. The Rev. Elsie Chamberlain, 45, tall, dark and handsome Congregationalist minister, was unanimously elected chairman of the Congregational Union - top job in British Congregationalism...