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Ordination is the process by which individuals are consecrated, that is, set apart as clergy to perform various religious rites and ceremonies. The process and ceremonies of ordination vary by religion and denomination. One who is in preparation for, or who is undergoing the process of ordination is sometimes called an ordinand. The liturgy used at an ordination is sometimes referred to as an ordination.
The Chinese Patriotic Catholic Association, abbreviated CPA, CPCA or CCPA, is an organization established in 1957 by the People's Republic of China's Religious Affairs Bureau to supervise mainland China's Catholics. In his encyclical Ad Apostolorum principis of 29 July 1958, Pope Pius XII deplored the attitude and activities of the Association and declared the bishops who participated in consecrating new bishops selected by the Association to be excommunicated. Pope Benedict XVI referred to the agents of the Association as people who, though not ordained priests and sometimes not baptized, "control and take decisions concerning important ecclesial questions, including the appointment of bishops."
Graham Douglas Leonard KCVO was an English Roman Catholic priest and former Anglican bishop. His principal ministry was as a bishop of the Church of England but, after his retirement as the Bishop of London, he became a Roman Catholic, becoming the most senior Anglican cleric to do so since the English Reformation. He was conditionally ordained to the priesthood in the Roman Catholic Church and was later appointed a monsignor by Pope John Paul II.
Andrew Tsien Chih-ch'un was the third Roman Catholic bishop of Hwalien. He was ordained a priest in Taipei in 1953. He was appointed bishop after Paul Shan Kuo-hsi was appointed bishop of Kaohsiung. He retired in 2001.
Andrew Francis was the Pakistani Roman Catholic bishop of Diocese of Multan from 2000 to 2014.
John Charles Broadhurst is an English priest of the Roman Catholic Church. Broadhurst was formerly a bishop of the Church of England and served as the Bishop of Fulham in the Diocese of London from 1996 to 2010. He resigned in order to be received into the Roman Catholic Church and became a priest in that church in 2011.
Andrew Burnham is an English priest of the Roman Catholic Church. Burnham was formerly a bishop of the Church of England and served as the third Bishop of Ebbsfleet, a provincial episcopal visitor in the Province of Canterbury from 2000 to 2010. He resigned in order to be received into the Roman Catholic Church. He was ordained as a Roman Catholic priest for the Personal Ordinariate of Our Lady of Walsingham on 15 January 2011.
Keith Newton PA is an English prelate of the Roman Catholic Church. On 15 January 2011, Newton was named as the first ordinary of the Personal Ordinariate of Our Lady of Walsingham. Prior to his reception into the Roman Catholic Church in 2011, Newton had served as a priest and bishop of the Church of England, most recently having served as Bishop of Richborough in the Province of Canterbury from 2002 until 31 December 2010.
Peter Paul Brennan was an American bishop. He was archbishop of New York for the Old Catholic Confederation. Brennan was also a bishop of the Ecumenical Catholic Diocese of the Americas, bishop of the African Orthodox Church, primate of the Order of Corporate Reunion, and president of Married Priests Now!.
Augustine Hu Daguo was the underground Roman Catholic bishop of the Roman Catholic Apostolic Prefecture of Shiqian, Shihtsien, of the China. The Apostolic Prefecture of Shiqian is a suffragan see in the Province of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Guiyang, also in China.
Bishop Adolph John Paschang was an American Maryknoll Catholic bishop, missionary, relief worker and educator working in the southern part of China in the early 20th century.
Andrew Peter Wypych is a Polish-born prelate of the Roman Catholic Church. He currently serves as an Auxiliary Bishop and Episcopal Vicar of the Archdiocese of Chicago.
Andrew Zolile T. Brook was the Roman Catholic bishop of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Umtata, South Africa. Ordained to the priesthood in 1957, Brook was appointed bishop of the Umtala Diocese in 1979 resigning in 1995.
Hao is the Mandarin pinyin and Wade–Giles romanization of the Chinese surname written 郝 in Chinese characters. It is listed 77th in the Song dynasty classic text Hundred Family Surnames. As of 2008, it is the 82nd most common surname in China, shared by 2.7 million people.
Andrew Bernardo Schierhoff was a Roman Catholic bishop who served as the Auxiliary Bishop of La Paz, Bolivia.
Anicetus Andrew Wang Chong-yi was a Chinese Roman Catholic bishop.
Simon Zhu Kaimin was a Chinese Roman Catholic Bishop of Roman Catholic Diocese of Jiangsu, China.
John Wang Ruowang is a Chinese Catholic priest and Bishop of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Qinzhou since 2011.
