Six more women ordained.THE WOMEN'S ORDINATION Conference has reported that six women were ordained or·dain tr.v. or·dained, or·dain·ing, or·dains 1. a. To invest with ministerial or priestly authority; confer holy orders on. b. To authorize as a rabbi. 2. as priests in a service on the Danube River Danube River German Donau Slovak Dunaj Serbo-Croatian and Bulgarian Dunav Romanian Dunarea Ukrainian Dunay River, central Europe. in Europe. Two female bishops, Christine Mayr-Lumetzberger Christine Mayr-Lumetzberger (born 1956 in Linz, Austria) is a teacher and former Benedictine nun who was excommunicated from the Roman Catholic Church when she and six others were ordained as priests by an Independent Catholic Bishop in 2002, called herself a Roman Catholic priest of Austria and Gisela Forster of Germany, and an "alternative" Roman Catholic male bishop, Rafael Regelsberger of Austria, officiated. The women came from Canada, France, Switzerland and Latvia, with two from the US In 2002, seven women including Mayr-Lumetzberger and roister rois·ter intr.v. rois·tered, rois·ter·ing, rois·ters 1. To engage in boisterous merrymaking; revel noisily. 2. To behave in a blustering manner; swagger. were ordained to the priesthood, but almost immediately excommunicated by the Vatican. |
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