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  • noun Plural form of consecration.

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Examples

  • Rome has declared that, while the consecrations were a schismatic act, they were NEVER an act which resulted in schism.

    Fellay speaks: The talks begin in the autumn of 2009 2009

  • Priestly Code the abstract _milluim_ [ "consecrations"] is chiefly used, with subject and object left out, as the name of a mere inaugural ceremony which lasts for several days (Leviticus viii.

    Prolegomena Julius Wellhausen 1881

  • The most disturbing episode, which goes against everything indicated by the pope, is the celebration of the 50th anniversary of the first illegitimate consecrations in 1958.

    Travel 2009

  • If it is true that these four bishops "are now Catholic bishops, that is for sure," is that because of the lifting of the excommunication -- does the lifting of the excommunication imply a retroactive consent to the illicit consecrations?

    The validity of the original SSPX excommunications... 2009

  • TAC members split from the Canterbury-based Anglican Communion headed by Archbishop Rowan Williams over issues such as its ordination of women priests and episcopal consecrations of women and practising homosexuals.

    Traditional Anglican Communion to be Received as Personal Prelature? 2009

  • The Church tracks the consecrations of a few renegade bishops and considers them valid, but illicit.

    The validity of the original SSPX excommunications... 2009

  • TAC members split from the Canterbury-based Anglican Communion headed by Archbishop Rowan Williams over issues such as its ordination of women priests and episcopal consecrations of women and practising homosexuals.

    Insight Scoop | The Ignatius Press Blog: 2009

  • The Church tracks the consecrations of a few renegade bishops and considers them valid, but illicit.

    The validity of the original SSPX excommunications... 2009

  • TAC members split from the Canterbury-based Anglican Communion headed by Archbishop Rowan Williams over issues such as its ordination of women priests and episcopal consecrations of women and practising homosexuals.

    400,000 Anglicans coming home to Rome? 2009

  • Members consider donations of land, money and labor to the church, funneled through the trust, to be consecrations or tithes.

    Judge won’t stop hearing on FLDS sect land sale 2008

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