Because the position of Stigand, the archbishop of Canterbury, was irregular, Wulfstan sought and received consecration as a bishop from Ealdred.

The author of the Festal Index, who was the original collector of St. Athanasius ' famed Festal Epistles ( collected shortly after his death ), stated that the Arians had accused St. Athanasius, among other accusations, that his ordination as Pope of Alexandria in 328 was not canonical because at the time of the consecration to the episcopate he had not yet attained the canonical age 30.

It was the consecration of the unity of France.

:" This Gautbert, who at his consecration received the honoured name of the apostle Simeon, went to Sweden, and was honourably received by the king and the people ; and he began, amidst general goodwill and approval, to build a church there --" ( Chapter XIV )

This represented a radical change from late medieval practice — whereby the primary focus of congregational worship was taken to be attendance at the consecration, and adoration of the elevated Consecrated Host.

The so-called manual acts, whereby the priest took the bread and the cup during the prayer of consecration, which had been deleted in 1552, were restored ; and an " Amen " was inserted after the words of institution and before the Communion, hence separating the elements of Consecration and Communion that Cranmer had tried to knit together.

In 1551 the Council of Trent definitively declared: " Because Christ our Redeemer said that it was truly his body that he was offering under the species of bread 6: 51, it has always been the conviction of the Church of God, and this holy Council now declares again, that by the consecration of the bread and wine there takes place a change of the whole substance of the bread into the substance of the body of Christ our Lord and of the whole substance of the wine into the substance of his blood.

" The attempt by some twentieth-century Catholic theologians to present the Eucharistic change as an alteration of significance ( transignification rather than transubstantiation ) was rejected by Pope Paul VI in his 1965 encyclical letter Mysterium fidei In his 1968 Credo of the People of God, he reiterated that any theological explanation of the doctrine must hold to the twofold claim that, after the consecration, 1 ) Christ's body and blood are really present ; and 2 ) bread and wine are really absent ; and this presence and absence is real and not merely something in the mind of the believer.

In any event, the plot was set into motion when, on a night when Gregory was confined by illness, the conspirators burst into the cathedral and commenced the consecration of Maximus as bishop of Constantinople.

The first order of business before the Council was to declare the clandestine consecration of Maximus invalid, and to confirm Theodosius ' installation of Gregory Nazianzus as Bishop of Constantinople.

Sometime in 1537 he was selected to be a " pastor ", although he never received any pastoral consecration.

Lothair was keen to keep Honorius on his side, keeping to the terms of the Concordat of Worms by not attending episcopal elections, agreeing that the investiture should only occur after the bishop ’ s consecration, and that the oath of homage be replaced with an oath of fidelity.

However, popular opinion was so strong that Benedict's consecration was allowed.

Before his consecration, Italy was disturbed by the rebellion of the eunuch Eleutherius, Exarch of Ravenna.

He died before consecration of wear and age on 10 November 1241 and was buried in St Peter's.

This delay was enforced by the imperial envoys, who insisted that the Constitution of 824 expressly forbid the consecration of any Pope-elect until the emperor had satisfied himself of the validity of the election.

On the papal side, it was conceded that the bishops should receive investiture with the sceptre, that the episcopal elections should be held in the presence of the Emperor or his representatives, that in case of disputed elections the Emperor should, after the decision of the metropolitan and the suffragan bishops, confirm the rightfully elected candidate, and lastly, that the imperial investiture of the temporal properties connected to the sees should take place in Germany before the consecration.

He was a subdeacon when king Theodahad of the Ostrogoths forced his election and consecration.

His successor was Stephen, who died soon before his consecration and is not considered a valid pope.

Within two years of the consecration of the Cassinese Basilica, Alexander II died and was succeeded by Hildebrand as Pope Gregory VII.

Once elected, his consecration was delayed for five years while he fought attempts by the Archbishop of Canterbury to assert primacy over York.

In 1615, on the death of George Lloyd, the king nominated him bishop of Chester ; his consecration was delayed till 7 July 1616.

In 1483 he was appointed Bishop of Aberdeen, although his consecration was delayed for four years ; and he was sent on missions to England, both before and after the death of Richard III of England in 1485.

Because he refused to profess obedience to the Archbishop of Canterbury, his consecration was delayed and formed part of the Canterbury-York dispute.

Schweitzer, however, writes: " The Jesus of Nazareth who came forward publicly as the Messiah, who preached the ethic of the kingdom of God, who founded the kingdom of heaven upon earth and died to give his work its final consecration never existed.

In German it is however generally Wallonenland: Le païs de Valons, Belgolalia, Wallonenland, in " Le Grand Dictionnaire Royal " Augsbourg, 1767 ; The name of the churches ' consecration is in Touraine assemblées, in Bretagne pardons, in the North Departments sometimes kermesses, sometimes as in the Walloon country, ducasses ( from dedicatio ) In English, it is Walloon country ( see further James Shaw ).

Bishops are usually drawn from the ranks of the archimandrites, and are required to be celibate ; however, a non-monastic priest may be ordained to the episcopate if he no longer lives with his wife ( following Canon XII of the Quinisext Council ) In contemporary usage such a non-monastic priest is usually tonsured to the monastic state, and then elevated to archimandrite, at some point prior to his consecration to the episcopacy.

On 29 May 1825, King Charles was anointed at the cathedral of Reims, the traditional site of consecration of French kings which however had been unused since 1775, as Louis XVIII had foregone the ceremony to avoid controversy.

The cardinals, however, propter honorem Communis Januae (" for the honor of the commune of Genoa "), determined to carry out this consecration on the Sunday after Easter.

Abbots of monasteries, however, came to Stigand for consecration throughout his time as archbishop.

John did not accept Langton's candidacy however, and Innocent's consecration of Langton in 1207 led to an eight-year struggle between John and the pope over the rights of the king to secure the election of his choice as archbishop.

In 1115, however, he refused to consecrate Bernard as Bishop of St David's in the royal chapel, although Robert of Meulan, the king's chief counsellor, advocated that the consecration must take place in the royal chapel according to ancient custom.

The site had been dedicated to Saint Michael by at least 1044 ( when the death of " Aedh of Scelic-Mhichí " is recorded ), however this dedication may have occurred as early as 950, around which time a new church was added to the monastery ( typically done to celebrate a consecration ) which was called Saint Michael's Church.

The list of post English Reformation prelates includes Matthew Wren, who, however was translated to Ely in the year of his consecration ( 1635 ); Nicholas Monck, a brother of the George Monck, 1st Duke of Albemarle, who died within a few months of consecration ( 1661 ); and two bishops around whom ecclesiastical storms raged, Benjamin Hoadley and Renn Dickson Hampden.

He was not enthroned until January 1293, however, because after his consecration he was with King Edward I of England in Scotland.

Greenfield was elected by the Chapter of York on the 4 December 1304 ; however there was delay in his consecration due to the death of Pope Benedict XI ; when finally consecrated it was by Clement V at Lyons, on the 30 January 1306.

The consecration documents found with the remains of archbishop Timotheos suggest, however, that Greek and Coptic continued to be used into the late 14th century, by which time Arabic was also in widespread use.

He followed James to England on his accession, but was the same year nominated to the see of Glasgow, his consecration in London, however, not taking place until October 1610.

Cranmer, however, assigned Nicholas Ridley, Bishop of London, to perform the consecration, and Ridley refused to do anything but follow the form of the ordinal as it had been prescribed by the Parliament of England.

It needs to be mentioned, however, that Russia was never specifically mentioned in the consecration prayer but the consecration was in the form of a ' whole world consecration '.

After the consecration, just before the communion of the clergy, the rubric calls for the consecrated Lamb to be intincted with the consecrated Blood of Christ ; however, depending on local practice, this is sometimes not done.

Soon after his consecration, Thomas had a new dormitory and refectory built and a new roof put on the cathedral ; these appear to have been temporary measures however, as some time later, probably in about 1075, he ordered the construction of a new cathedral on a different site.

The historian Peter Blair, however, states that Wighard died as he was about to head home to Canterbury, after his consecration.