Greater Tucker Missionary Baptist Church invites the public to the ordination service for Ministers Irvin O. Overton, Sr. and Leonard W. Ross, Jr. on Sunday, at 3 p.m. The guest speaker will be Pastor ...

KALAMAZOO, Mich. (AP) -- Officials in the Church of the Brethren will meet next month to review the case of a gay minister who could be in danger of being removed from the clergy. Matthew Smucker, 34, ...

The Diocese of Jefferson City is preparing for the ordination of Most Rev. Ralph Bernard O'Donnell as its new bishop during a ...

One afternoon this September, Mike Bohl '11 went out on a bike ride, got a call from his old roommate and came home an ordained minister. His roommate ordained him online through the Universal Life ...

Are you familiar with Amish ordinations? An ordination is a service where a new minister, deacon or bishop is ordained. We have several examples in the New Testament of ways they ordained a church ...

SIOUX CITY (KTIV) - On Thursday, May 1, KTIV broadcast the ordination of Father John Keehner as Bishop of the Diocese of Sioux City. The ordination service began at 2 p.m., and KTIV aired it live from ...

A host of pastors and deacons lined up in the church basement wearing red stoles and exuberant smiles. We were gathered together for an ordination. Ordinations are joyful occasions, and celebrating ...

Yesterday the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) voted to allow the ordination of openly gay and lesbian ministers, joining a growing number of Protestant churches that accept homosexual clergy members. Two ...

CINCINNATI (CN) — Ministers of nondenominational churches ordained online cannot be prevented from solemnizing marriages, the Universal Life Church Monastery argued before an appeals court panel on ...

At 85, the Rev. Dr. Kenneth Parker still serves three local churches — Essex Community, Moriah Methodist Church, and the Mount Moriah Presbyterian Church in Port Henry. The 60th anniversary of his ...

SALISBURY — Piedmont Unitarian Universalist Church will be celebrating the ordination of minister Shakeisha Holton Gray at John Calvin Presbyterian Church, 1620 Brenner Ave., on Sunday, July 24, at 3 ...