Major Orders

Major Orders

male
Christian, HolyOrders, minor orders, Counter-Reformation, subdeacon, chasuble…Orders
The term major orders was a part of the clerical terminology of the Roman Catholic Church until shortly after the Second Vatican Council, when the...
George Herbert

George Herbert

male, deceased (1633)
Calendar of Saint, Sonneteers, anglican communion, University of Cambridge, evangelical lutheran church in america, Church of England…HolyOrders
George Herbert (April 3, 1593 - March 1, 1633) was a Welsh poet, orator and a priest. Being born into an artistic and wealthy family, he received a...
John Keble

John Keble

male, deceased (1866)
Christian hymnwriter, Oxford Movement, Fellow of Oriel College, Oxford, Keble College, Oxford, Alumni of Corpus Christi College, Oxford, Fairford…HolyOrders
John Keble (April 25, 1792 - March 29, 1866) was an English churchman, one of the leaders of the Oxford Movement, and gave his name to Keble...
Emmanuel Milingo

Emmanuel Milingo

male, 79 years old
prelature, ordination, unification church, Laicized Roman Catholic bishop, lusaka, excommunication…Holy See, HolyOrders
Emmanuel Milingo (born June 13, 1930) was a Zambian Roman Catholic archbishop. In 1969, when Milingo was only 39, Pope Paul VI consecrated him as...
Phillip Aspinall

Phillip Aspinall

male, 50 years old
Primates of the Anglican Church of Australia, Deakin University alumni, Anglican bishops by diocese in Australia, monash university, Anglican, Anglican Church in Australia…HolyOrders
The Most Revd Phillip Aspinall (born 1959) has been the Anglican Archbishop of Brisbane, Queensland, Australia since February 2002, and Primate of...
Pietro Sambi

Pietro Sambi

male, 71 years old
HolyOrders, Prelate, nuncio, roman catholic church, Most Reverend, Sogliano al Rubicone…Diplomat of the Holy See
"Most Reverend" Pietro Sambi is an Italian prelate of the Roman Catholic Church, currently serving as the Apostolic Nuncio to the United States....

Peter Smith

male, 66 years old
paedophile priest, Thornton Heath, John Ward, Roman Catholic sex abuse cases, doctorate in canon law, Consecrator…HolyOrders
Peter Smith (born October 21, 1943) is an English prelate of the Roman Catholic Church, currently serving as Archbishop of Cardiff. Peter Smith was...

J. Michael Miller

male, 63 years old
Archdiocese of Vancouver, Pontifical Gregorian University, HolyOrders, naturalized, Congregation for Bishop, titular archbishop…Holy See
John Michael Miller, CSB (born July 9, 1946) is a Canadian prelate of the Roman Catholic Church. He currently serves as coadjutor bishop of the...
Edwin Sandys

Edwin Sandys

male, deceased (1629)
Third Supply, Virginia Company of London, bermuda, Virginia Colony, Jamestown, American Revolutionary War…Orders, HolyOrders
Sir Edwin Sandys (9 December 1561 - October 1629) was a British statesman and one of the founders of the proprietary Virginia Company of London,...
Henry Moore

Henry Moore

male, deceased (1844)
Episcopal, Methodist, Methodism, wesleyan, Biographer, episcopal church…HolyOrders
Henry Moore (1751-1844) was an English Wesleyan minister and biographer, born in a suburb of Dublin and apprenticed to a wood carver. Impressed...