1. The following year he received Holy Orders as a priest of the Order.

2. On 14 February 1556, he was degraded from holy orders and returned to Bocardo.

3. For many, partnership remains cloaked in a monastic exclusivity, as accessible as the holy orders. Sentencedict.com

4. This was a time when permanent fellows of a Cambridge college had to be unmarried, celibate and take holy orders.

5. Says one religious publication: “Celibacy is the ecclesiastical law in the Western Church imposed on clerics forbidding those in the married state from being ordained and those in holy orders from marrying.

6. 12 The sacred sacrament of Holy Orders will be ridiculed, oppressed and despised, for in doing this, one scorns and defiles the Church of God, and even God Himself,[www.Sentencedict.com] represented by His priests.

7. Chrism is used in the administration of the Sacraments of Baptism, Confirmation, and Holy Orders, in the consecration of churches, chalices, patens, altars, and altar-stones, and in the solemn blessing of bells and baptismal water.

8. ‘A Consistory court has the power to hear against any Anglican clergyman or woman a charge of ‘conduct unbecoming a clerk in holy orders’.’ ‘Having failed to obtain the special licence required for marriage during Lent, they were summoned to appear before the Consistory …

9. Patronage (Benefices) Measure, if the patron is a clerk in holy orders or is married to such a clerk, that clerk is disqualified from presentation to that benefice.15 The PCC secretary must then call a meeting of the PCC within four weeks.16 The pur-

10. Concubinage, at the present day, the state, more or less permanent, of a man and woman living together in illicit intercourse.In its strict sense it is used of those unions only in which the man and the woman are free from any obligation arising from a vow, the state of matrimony or Holy orders, or the fact of relationship or affinity; it is immaterial whether the parties dwell together or not