A host of pastors and deacons lined up in the church basement wearing red stoles and exuberant smiles. We were gathered together for an ordination. Ordinations are joyful occasions, and celebrating ...

During a time when the Catholic Church is facing a national crisis in the priesthood, the Springfield-Cape Girardeau Catholic Diocese is planning an ordination celebration. Patrick Nwokoye will be ...

Georgia priest ordained a Kentucky woman in 2008 in Lexington, Ky. He was excommunicated from Catholic church then but remained a member of his religious order Because he refused to recant his beliefs ...

Friday’s ordination of Bishop David O’Connell as Coadjutor Bishop of Trenton was marked, as blogger extraordinaire Rocco Palmo wrote, by “warmth of emotion, the understated beauty, the enthusiasm and, ...

KAMPALA - The Diocese of Kampala has, Sunday held an ordination service at All Saints’ Cathedral in Kampala. The service was presided over by the Diocesan Bishop who is also the Archbishop of the ...

MASON CITY | The ordination service for Greg Gosnell, associate pastor of youth and children’s ministries at Faith Baptist Church since September 2010, will take place on Sunday, Nov. 17. The service ...

Larry Barnhill had a vision a few years ago of a cross, Christ's face and a red religious garment. Barnhill, a health technician with the Veterans Administration office in the Cascades office complex, ...

The spacious sanctuary of Silas First Baptist Church at 91 W. Earleigh Heights Road, was filled with worshipers Sept. 13 for a special service. The church was host to the ordination of five ...

After 45 years, one might think firsts would be a thing of the past for Shepherd of the Lake Lutheran Church. But today, at 5:30 p.m., the church will have its first ordination ceremony as Prior Lake ...