Ordination is the process by which individuals are consecrated, that is, set apart and elevated from the laity class to the clergy, who are thus then authorized...

The ordination of women to ministerial or priestly office is an increasingly common practice among some contemporary major religious groups. It remains...

The ordination hall is a Buddhist building specifically consecrated and designated for the performance of the Buddhist ordination ritual (upasampadā)...

Ordination or gradient analysis, in multivariate analysis, is a method complementary to data clustering, and used mainly in exploratory data analysis (rather...

writes about the ordination of a certain Zachæus as bishop by the imposition of Simon Peter Bar-Jonah's hands. The words bishop and ordination are used in...

given before the getsulma (Tibetan novice) ordination vows are given. After these, full bhikkhuni ordination may be given. Some Theravadin women may choose...

Ordination is the process of consecrating clergy. Ordination may also refer to: Ordination (statistics), a multivariate statistical analysis procedure...

Eastern or Western Catholicism, they may marry as laymen before their ordination as clergy. Priesthood is open only to men; women are excluded. The Catholic...

history of women's ordination in the world's religious traditions. It is not an exhaustive list of all historic or contemporary ordinations of women. 6th century...

In the liturgical traditions of the Catholic Church, the term ordination refers to the means by which a person is included in one of the holy orders of...