postulancy

While that's the final major step in the postulancy process, it's no guarantee of ordination.

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Archdeacons are commonly involved in the postulancy process and, subject to the bishop's OK, in the placement of clergy.

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My interview to be admitted to postulancy -- the first step in a process leading to candidacy and then to actual ordination -- was a fiasco.

Archive 2006-11-01 Susan Palwick 2006

I'd been admitted to postulancy, which was what mattered.

Archive 2006-11-01 Susan Palwick 2006

This applicant is recommended at this time for postulancy.

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Before my postulancy interview, I was required to go through a thorough psychological examination.

Archive 2006-11-01 Susan Palwick 2006

Now I just have financial, immigration, postulancy, academic and crowded-city anxiety.

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Then apply for postulancy in the diocese of Niagara, as well as CPE.

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For this reason a sixmonth postulancy and a two-year novitiate were established—as in the more traditional monasteries—before vows could be taken.

THE DIFFERENT DRUM M. SCOTT PECK 1987

It was decided to retain the postulancy and novitiate as a time of preparation required before vows.

THE DIFFERENT DRUM M. SCOTT PECK 1987