All ministers are credentialed at one of three levels of licensure, the most senior of which is the rank of Ordained Bishop.

Ordained priest at Genoa in 1528, he was sent by his order to Pavia, where he lectured for sixteen years.

Local pastors are not required to have advanced degrees but are required to pass an approved five year Course of Study at an approved United Methodist seminary or Course of Study School ; successfully complete written and oral examinations and appear before the District Committee on Ministry and the Conference Board of Ordained Ministry.

They may become an ordained Elder if they complete their bachelors degree ; requirements of their particular Conference Board of Ordained Ministry ; as well as prescribed seminary courses at an approved United Methodist Seminary.

Ordained in July 1840 by the bishop of Winchester, he at once entered on ministerial work in that city, and during his ministry there and under the influence of the missionaries Henry Martyn and David Brainerd, whose lives he studied, he carried devotional asceticism to an injurious length.

A minister who enters the status of honorable location retains their ordination credentials unless they voluntarily surrender them, while a minister who is involuntarily located may or may not, at the discretion of the Board of Ordained Ministry of their Annual Conference, retain their credentials of ordination.

Ordained in 1614, he had positions as parish priest at Houdan and Roucy.

Ordained as a priest on 29 October 1933 by Cardinal Francesco Marchetti-Selvaggiani, he originally served as a chaplain and teacher during World War II, his main concern at that time being youth ministry.

Ordained at eight years old, after fifty years of meditative practices and studies he was elevated by H. H.

Ordained a deacon in 1855, he was appointed rector at the newly organized Grace Church in Orange, New Jersey.

Ordained into the United Free Church of Scotland in 1912, Young was appointed two years later to his first ministry in the village of Temple, Midlothian, and married Janet Green, who was lecturing in English at a teacher training college in Glasgow.

Ordained a Baptist Minister in 1987, Tim Costello, along with his wife, Merridie, and a team of others, rebuilt the congregation at the St Kilda Baptist Church and opened a drop-in centre.

Ordained into the Unitarian church he first became an active minister at Louisville, Kentucky, then a slave state and soon threw himself into the national movement for the abolition of slavery.

Ordained Students and Staff at the college produced The Carlow College Magazine.

Ordained in 1912 he was installed as a minister at Ringsend, County Londonderry.

Ordained a Jesuit priest at the age of 30, he became, at age 55, the first Filipino provincial superior of this religious order, the Society of Jesus.

Ordained a priest at Tournai on March 28, 1716, in 1720 he was chosen by the president, Robert Witham, to be his vice-president, an office which involved the supervision of both professors and students.

Ordained a priest in 1849, he was professor of ecclesiastical history at the Sorbonne from 1854 to 1856.

Ordained as a priest in December 1854, he was chaplain at Balassagyarmat for ten years.

Ordained an auxiliary bishop at the age of 38, Bernardin later became Archbishop of Cincinnati and ultimately the Archbishop of Chicago and cardinal.

Ordained a priest in 1940 in Lowell, Massachusetts, he served at St. George Church, Hartford, Connecticut, while teaching and serving as assistant dean of the Holy Cross Greek Orthodox Theological School, then in Pomfret, Connecticut and now in Brookline, Massachusetts.

Ordained a priest on 21 December 1954 at Kanda Catholic Cathedral, he went to study at the Pontifical Urban University in Rome, earning a doctorate in Canon law in 1960.

Ordained Women in the Early Church: A Documentary History, Johns Hopkins University Press, 2005.

Ordained in the Church of England in 1764, Newton became curate of Olney, Buckinghamshire, where he began to write hymns with poet William Cowper.

Ordained deacon in the Church of England, he retreated with his extended family to the manor of Little Gidding in Huntingdonshire, where he lived the rest of his life.

Ordained in 1862, he was shortly afterwards sent to Beijing, where he began a collection of material for a museum of natural history, mainly zoological, but in which botany, geology, and palaeontology were also well represented.

Ordained in 1526, Držić was sent in 1538 to Siena in Tuscany to study the Church Canon Law, where his academic results were average.

He graduated in 1848, and after serving with the Canadian Sabbath School Mission, was Ordained as a Presbyterian Church of Canada ( Free Church ) minister in January 1850, and Inducted into the Oakville Presbyterian Church and Knox Church " Sixteen " pastoral charge, the latter where the Sixteen Mile Creek crossed Dundas Street.

Ordained a deacon, he was preparing to take up a living in Derbyshire when he was invited to London.

He is a founding member of the Society of Ordained Scientists and also of the International Society for Science and Religion, of which he was the first president.

Ordained by First Baptist Church, in 1824 he was called as the second preacher of the First African Baptist Church, the oldest black Baptist church west of the Allegheny Mountains.

The 1987 CBS miniseries Murder Ordained was filmed in Emporia.

Ordained about that time, he was named chaplain to Richard Cox, then bishop of Ely, and in 1575 was presented to the rectory of Teversham in Cambridgeshire.

Ordained to the priesthood in 1819, he was appointed to a curacy.

Ordained in 1946 as a minister in the Church of the Brethren, he was elected to the U. S. Olympic Hall of Fame in 1983 and the United States National Track and Field Hall of Fame in 1975.

Ordained an apostle and member of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles in 1906, McKay was a general authority for nearly 64 years, longer than anyone else in LDS Church history except Eldred G. Smith.

Ordained in 1867, he was a Congregational pastor in Manchester, New Hampshire, and, later, in New York City.

He was Ordained a priest in 1934, he became a bishop in 1946, serving successively as auxiliary bishop, diocesan bishop ( from 1953 ), and first archbishop ( from 1957 ) of Tucumán.

Ordained in the Church of Scotland, Minto was known for his handwritten marriage certificates.

Ordained December 18, 1833, the first Presiding Patriarch, Joseph Smith, Sr., was the father of the founding prophet.

Ordained as a Catholic priest in 1966, he worked as a diocesan priest, student chaplain, and eventually began work in 1974 as assistant priest in the parish of St. George in Paderborn.

During his summers, he went into the newly-opened lumbering camps of Northern Ontario, serving first as a student missionary, was ordained on 30 September 1902 as an Ordained Missionary to Canada Atlantic Lumber Camps, from Rainy Lake to Whitney under the North Bay Presbytery.