In practice, " extraordinary " circumstance have included disagreeing with Episcopalian views of the episcopate, and as a result, ELCA pastors ordained by other pastors are not permitted to be deployed to Episcopal Churches ( they can, however, serve in Presbyterian Church USA, United Methodist Church, Reformed Church in America, and Moravian Church congregations, as the ELCA is in full communion with these denominations ).

In the Church of Scotland, which has a Presbyterian church structure, the word " bishop " refers to an ordained person, usually a normal parish minister, who has temporary oversight of a trainee minister.

Some of the splits have been due to doctrinal controversy, while some have been caused by disagreement concerning the degree to which those ordained to church office should be required to agree with the Westminster Confession of Faith, which historically serves as an important confessional document-second only to the Bible, yet directing particularities in the standardization and translation of the Bible-in Presbyterian churches.

With 1, 952, 287 members and 21, 064 ordained ministers in 10, 657 congregations at the end of 2011, the reunited denomination is the most visible and influential Presbyterian denomination in North America.

A Freemason, Glenn is a member of Concord Lodge No. 688 Concord, Ohio and DeMolay International, the Masonic youth organization, and is an ordained elder in the Presbyterian Church.

( Because ruling elders are often ordained in a fashion nearly identical to teaching elders, the distinction between lay and clergy is not as clear under the Presbyterian system as in others.

Born July 11, 1926 in New York City, he is an ordained Presbyterian minister and the author of more than thirty published books thus far.

He was ordained on June 1, 1958 at the same Madison Avenue Presbyterian Church where he had heard George Buttrick preach four years earlier.

The moderators of the General Assemblies of the Church of Scotland, the Presbyterian Church in Ireland and the United Church of Canada, when ordained clergy, are styled The Right Reverend during their year of service and The Very Reverend afterwards.

* Presbyterian polity or Synodal government-rule by assemblies of " elders " or ordained officers.

Their name comes from Samson Occom, a Mohegan Indian and an ordained Presbyterian minister.

He was ordained on August 19, 1744 in London as a minister in the German and was minister of the Wappetaw church outside Charleston for 10 years, before moving to Savannah in about 1760 to establish the congregation that became the First Presbyterian Church of Savannah.

* First Presbyterian minister ordained in Georgia was John Springer in Wilkes County, 1790.

In 1963 Rogers graduated from Pittsburgh Theological Seminary and was ordained a minister in the Presbyterian Church.

He had been a sympathetic reader of John Humfrey's 1661 justification of his acceptance of re-ordination by William Piers, having already once been ordained in the Presbyterian style by a classis.

Barnes was ordained as a Presbyterian minister by the presbytery of Elizabethtown, New Jersey, in 1825, and was the pastor successively of the Presbyterian Church in Morristown, New Jersey ( 1825 – 1830 ), and of the First Presbyterian Church of Philadelphia ( 1830 – 1867 ).

Ferguson, a devout Presbyterian, resolved the apparent paradox by placing both developments in the context of a divinely ordained plan that mandated both progress and human free will.

Schaeffer was the first student to graduate and the first to be ordained in the Bible Presbyterian Church.

Sylvester Graham was ordained in 1826 as a Presbyterian minister.

Registrations even include some members of the clergy, such as Presbyterian ministers and a Church History Professor and ordained priest.

He graduated from the seminary and was ordained as a Presbyterian minister in 1911.

Chavis accomplished much in his life including fighting in the American Revolution, studying at both Liberty Hall and the College of New Jersey ( now Princeton University ), becoming an ordained Presbyterian minister, and opening a school that instructed white and poor black students in North Carolina.

Although Sunday was ordained by the Presbyterian Church in 1903, his ministry was nondenominational, and he was not a strict Calvinist.

On December 4, 1700, Windham ’ s first Minister, Reverend Samuel Whiting, was ordained.

** Minister ( Christianity ), particularly ordained ministry

Danny Bonaduce is also an ordained Minister, as part of a 94 WYSP Radio Promotion becoming an Ordained Minister with the Universal Life Church World Headquarters, Carrabelle, FL.

A former geophysicist, Dean was ordained as a Minister of the Word in 1969 in Kent Town, South Australia.

During his professional career, he was also known for his Christian ministry as an ordained Evangelical minister, leading to his nickname, " The Minister of Defense.

He was ordained by his home Presbytery in Prince Edward Island on January 14, 1943, and became Minister of the First Presbyterian Church in Portage la Prairie, Manitoba.

Holmes had previously studied another New Thought teaching Divine Science, Holmes was an ordained Divine Science Minister.

Pratt was ordained as a minister, in 1913, and served as an Assistant Minister in Streetsville, Ontario, until 1920.

Having returned to Scotland, Leighton was ordained as a Minister in the Church of Scotland on 16 December 1641.

He was also known as the Minister of Defense, as he is also an ordained minister.

Despite already having been ordained as a Minister it is worth noting that upon that weekend in November 1904 Williams had a conversion experience, on the Saturday night prior to Jenkins ’ arrival.

Cummings is an ordained Pentecostal Minister and performed service at the wedding of former teammate, Sean Elliott.

He later began studying theology at Moore Theological College and was ordained an Anglican Minister.

He was ordained as an Anglican Minister in 2003 and became the licensed Anglican minister of St Aidans.

He was an ordained Orthodox rabbi and later served as a member of the Israeli Knesset.

He was ordained a priest in 1904 and served in various posts including appointment as Papal Nuncio in several countries, including France ( 1944 ).

The first ordained female Reconstructionist rabbi, Sandy Eisenberg Sasso, served as rabbi of the Manhattan Reconstructionist Congregation in 1976 and gained a pulpit in 1977 at Beth El Zedeck congregation in Indianapolis.

He was ordained by the early Reformer, Aaron Chorin, and served for two years teaching and giving sermons in the Reform New Synagogue in Berlin.

A total of 146 Friars Minor, all of whom were ordained as priests ( and mostly Spaniards by birth ) served in California between 1769 – 1845.

Author Marianne Williamson is an ordained Unity minister, and served a Unity church in Detroit in the 1980s and 90s.

His father, Reverend Denzel Hayes Washington, Sr., a native of Buckingham County, Virginia, served as an ordained Pentecostal minister, and also worked for the Water Department and a local department store, S. Klein.

He was ordained as an Orthodox rabbi in 1947 within the Chabad Lubavitch Hasidic community while under the leadership of the sixth Lubavitcher Rebbe, Yosef Yitzchok Schneersohn, and served Chabad congregations in Massachusetts and Connecticut.

In 1813 he was ordained and accepted a country curacy ; he married during the next year, and in 1821 he obtained the appointment of minor canon of St. Paul's Cathedral in London, where he served as a cardinal.

He served a five-year apprenticeship and worked as a Linotype operator finally acquiring his journeyman's papers, but decided to return to school to pursue his ambition to become an ordained minister.

Muhlenberg was ordained in Leipzig in 1739, and served as assistant minister and director of the orphanage at Grosshennersdorf from 1739 to 1741.

Muhlenberg visited England in 1772 and was ordained into the priesthood of the Anglican Church although he served a Lutheran congregation.

Each Armenian celibate priest becomes a member of the brotherhood in which he has studied and ordained in or under the jurisdiction of which he has served.

On 22 October 1803, he was ordained deacon at Ely, and afterwards priest, and served as Simeon's curate at the Church of Holy Trinity, taking charge of the neighbouring parish of Lolworth.

Upon his graduation in 1860, he was ordained as a Lutheran pastor, and served pastorates in New York, Indiana, and his home state of Ohio.

Moreover, the Jacobitism of the non-jurors provoked a state policy of repression in 1715 and 1745, and fostered the growth of new Hanoverian congregations, using the English Prayer Book, ( served by clergy who had been ordained by a bishop but amenable to none ) who qualified themselves under the Act of 1712.

After attending the then-Regina Campus and the St. Andrew's College seminary in Saskatoon, he was ordained as minister of the United Church of Canada in 1976 and served as minister of several rural congregations.

He was ordained deacon by Richard Terrick, Bishop of London, on Christmas Eve 1769, and for a short time he served curacies at the nearby parishes of Willesden and Kingsbury.

Monson was ordained an apostle at age 36, served in the First Presidency under three church presidents and was the President of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles from March 12, 1995 until he became President of the Church.

He was ordained a priest on July 2, 1965, aged 25, and served in ethnic Albanian parishes in Bronx and Westchester counties of New York.

He was ordained as a Catholic priest in 1953 and served in parishes in Jersey City, Rutherford, Paramus, and Cranford, New Jersey.

Dr. Horton is also an ordained minister in the United Reformed Churches in North America and has served at two churches in Southern California and is currently Associate Pastor at Christ United Reformed Church in Santee, California, a member church of the United Reformed Churches in North America ( URCNA ) denomination.

Carnahan and his family were active members of the First Baptist Church of Rolla, where he served as an ordained deacon and member of the building committee.

On June 3, 1831, at a conference at the headquarters of the church in Kirtland, Ohio, Harris was ordained to the office of High Priest and served as a missionary in the Midwest, Pennsylvania, and New York.

) He also was ordained as a Southern Baptist minister in 1980, having served as pastor for the historic White Mills Baptist Church, after attending the Southern Baptist Theological Seminary in Louisville.