Just 475 will be ordained this year, half as many as 40 years ago.
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The archbishop, who left the oil industry in 1989 to be ordained, also talked about his faith.
Donne was 43 when he agreed to be ordained in the Protestant church.
In Opus Dei, women receive the same doctrinal and theological formation as men, including those men will eventually be ordained priests.
The Church of England is to review its policy towards same-sex relationships and consider allowing gay clergy to be ordained as bishops.
Other churches have completed that journey - including most recently the Presbyterian Church of the USA, which decided last week that gay and lesbian people could be ordained.
When the Church of England voted to allow the ordination of women, the Catholic Church allowed disaffected Anglican priests, even those with wives, to be ordained as Catholic priests.
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A. in philosophy who was the son of the butler to Lord Herries, and Albert Wagner, the "t" not sounded, a shy, smiling man from the Province of Lyons in France whose seniority in the Society of Jesus would cause him to be the first in their second-year class to be ordained a priest.
It is ordained to be because it followed the great bull market of 1982-2000.
Curiously, it is assumed in the case of Iraq that American intervention is pre-ordained to be incompetent and that the looked-for benefit will be outweighed by the unintended consequences.
For one thing, he let himself be photographed smoking a cigar to celebrate his party's election gains: as an ordained Lutheran minister, he might be expected to spurn booze and tobacco.
On October 26th, Robert Rubin, until recently America's Treasury Secretary, was ordained into what will now be Citi's ruling Trinity.
But at its meeting on Monday, the Assembly voted to allow ministers who were already ordained at the same time as Mr Rennie was elected in Aberdeen, and already known to be gay, to be appointed to new jobs despite their homosexuality.
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