Later, a line of Judges ( who were not kings as they only had the power to provide insight to the people and not to take action to enforce their rulings ) was created alongside the line of High Priests created by Moses through Aaron.

Priests, deacons, and subdeacons are forbidden to live with women other than such as were permitted by the Nicene Council.

The majority of the defenders were Africans slaves, with only a few Portuguese soldiers and Priests.

Priests, monks and knights were killed ; cities, churches and monasteries were burned.

Priests staffed temples throughout Egypt, giving offerings to the cult statues in which the gods were believed to take up residence and performing other rituals for their benefit.

Women were generally relegated to lower positions in the temple hierarchy, although some held specialized and influential positions, especially that of the God's Wife of Amun, whose religious importance overshadowed the High Priests of Amun in the Late Period.

The Priests and the Levites were in turn served by servants called Nethinim.

Bishops are encouraged to look at model saints like Boniface, and Pope Pius X. Priests were encouraged to be living examples of the love of Christ and his sacrifice.

Priests, women, slaves and minors were exempted, although they could offer it voluntarily.

The High Priests of Memphis — where the king was crowned — were particularly important, as they were the highest religious authority of the time and had influence throughout the kingdom.

However, the agreement favored the government heavily, as Priests were required to register with the government and religion was banned from schools.

Priests and monks were also invited to come and build churches at Vilnius and Navahradak.

According to the Books of Chronicles chapter 9 line 2, the Israelites, who took part in The Return to Zion are from the Tribe of Judah alongside the Tribe of Simeon that was absorbed into it, the Tribe of Benjamin, the Tribe of Levi ( Levites and Priests ) alongside the tribes of Ephraim and Manasseh, which according to the Book of Kings 2 Chapter 7 were exiled by the Assyrians ( The Biblical scholars Umberto Cassuto and Elia Samuele Artom claim these two tribes ' names to be a reference to the remant of all Ten Tribes that was not exiled and absorbed into the Judean population ).

Priests were chosen from among the main citizens of Delphi, and were appointed for life.

Priests were to avoid everything that might disqualify them for God ’ s service.

The Galli or Priests of Cybele were eunuchs.

The Kohanim ( Priests ), in their white linen robes and tubular hats, were omnipresent, directing pilgrims and advising them what kinds of sacrifices were to be performed.

With the major royal projects of the Old Kingdom, the High Priests of Ptah were particularly sought after and worked in concert with the Vizier, somehow filling the role of chief architect and master craftsmen, responsible for the decoration of the royal funerary complexes.

Priests, noblemen and commoners were questioned.

Priests and priestesses, although often drawn from certain families by tradition, did not form a separate collegiality or class: they were ordinary citizens who, on certain occasions, were called to perform certain functions.

' Yet while having been officially removed from office, he remained as one of the nation's most influential political and social individuals, aided greatly by the use of his five sons and his son-in-law as puppet High Priests.

With the following words on 16 June 2009, Benedict XVI officially marked the beginning of the year dedicated to priests, "… On the forthcoming Solemnity of the Most Sacred Heart of Jesus, Friday 19 June 2009 – a day traditionally devoted to prayer for the sanctification of the clergy –, I have decided to inaugurate a ‘ Year for Priests ’ in celebration of the 150th anniversary of the dies natalis of John Mary Vianney, the Patron Saint of parish priests worldwide …"

He officially chose two High Priests of the Jewish Nation and seven councillors to the High Priests.

Monasticism in the Protestant tradition proceeds from John Wycliffe who organized the Lollard Preacher Order ( the " Poor Priests ") to promote his reformation views.

A High Priests Quorum is a local quorum organized in each stake and presided over by the local stake presidency, who holds the keys of the Melchizedek Priesthood with a stake.

If there are more than forty-eight Priests in the ward, then multiple quorums are organized.

Priests Quorums are organized at the ward level and presided over by the ward Bishop, with the Bishop being the president of the quorum ( s ) and holding the keys of the Aaronic Priesthood in the ward.

It consisted of a public parade and an invitation-only debutante ball ( the " Priests of Pallas Ball "), organized by a secret society of prominent Kansas Citians that called itself the Priests of Pallas.

NARC also publishes a Directory of Priests and Priestesses, and has organized conferences drawing practitioners of African-based religion from around the world.

The High Priests Quorum, however, is organized at the stake level, with the president of the quorum being the stake president.

On 18 August 1991, an Open Forum on " Elections 1991 ", jointly organized by the Council of Priests, the Justice and Peace Commission, the Central Council of Catholic Laity and the Catholic Institute for Religion and Society, was held in the nine constituencies of Hong Kong, Kowloon and the New Territories in order to encourage the faithful to take an active part in the direct elections to the Legislative Council on 15 September.

Priests shall be appointed to parochial churches by the bishops, to whom they shall be responsible for the care of souls and other matters pertaining to them.

The Persians may have experimented initially with ruling Yehud as a Dividic client-kingdom under descendants of Jehoiachin, but by the mid – 5th century BCE Yehud had become in practice a theocracy, ruled by hereditary High Priests and a Persian-appointed governor, frequently Jewish, charged with keeping order and seeing that tribute was paid.

Priests identified themselves by wearing all black clothing with very simple collars.

As Anglicanism represents a broad range of theological opinion, its presbyterate includes priests who consider themselves no different in any respect from those of the Roman Catholic Church, and a minority who prefer to use the title presbyter in order to distance themselves from the more sacrificial theological implications which they associate with the word “ priest .” While priest is the official title of a member of the presbyterate in every Anglican province worldwide, the ordination rite of certain provinces ( including the Church of England ) recognizes the breadth of opinion by adopting the title The Ordination of Priests ( also called Presbyters ).

The song is about a dystopian futuristic society in which the arts, particularly music, have been suppressed by the Priests of the Temples of Syrinx.

* At Le Mans, France, Father Basil Moreau, CSC, founds the Congregation of Holy Cross by joining the Brothers of St. Joseph and the Auxiliary Priests of Le Mans.

Presbyterorum Ordinis, the Decree on the Ministry and Life of Priests, is one of the documents produced by the Second Vatican Council.

In his message " The Priest and Pastoral Ministry in a Digital World: New Media at the Service of the Word " to priests for the 44th World Communications Day ( 16 May 2010 ), Pope Benedict XVI called for them to become digital citizens and engage with the information society, saying, " Priests stand at the threshold of a new era: as new technologies create deeper forms of relationship across greater distances, they are called to respond pastorally by putting the media ever more effectively at the service of the Word .... Who better than a priest, as a man of God, can develop and put into practice, by his competence in current digital technology, a pastoral outreach capable of making God concretely present in today ’ s world and presenting the religious wisdom of the past as a treasure which can inspire our efforts to live in the present with dignity while building a better future?

Priests and deacons are ordained by their own diocesan bishop, while bishops are consecrated through the laying on of hands of at least three other bishops.

The Priests of Baʿal are mentioned in the Hebrew Bible numerous times, including a confrontation with the Prophet Elijah (), the burning of incense symbolic of prayer (), and rituals followed by priests adorned in special vestments () offering sacrifices similar to those given to honor the Hebrew God.

The main pilgrimage sites in the diocese besides the grottos of Marmoutier, are: Notre-Dame-la-Riche, a sanctuary erected on the site of a church dating from the third century, and where the founder St. Gatianus is venerated ; Notre-Dame-de-Loches ; St. Christopher and St. Giles at St-Christophe, a pilgrimage dating from the ninth century ; the pilgrimage to the Oratory of the Holy Face in Tours, managed by Priests of the Holy Face canonically erected on 8 December, 1876.

Almost totally reconstructed from the original stones, based on a 1779 sketch made by Beranger, the Priests ' House is a small Romanesque building, with a decorative arch at the east end.

In the Sörla þáttr, an Icelandic short story written by two Christian Priests in 15th century, Dvalin is the name of one of the four dwarves ( including Alfrigg, Berling and Grer ) who fashioned a necklace which was later acquired by a woman called Freyja, who is King Odin's concubine, after she agreed to spend a night with each of them.

On August 17, 1998, she was received into the Catholic Church by Father Frank Pavone, the International Director of Priests for Life and Father Edward Robinson in Dallas.

The Salvatorian Priests & Brothers came to St. Nazianz in 1896, 15 years after the Society of the Divine Savior was founded by Father Francis Mary of the Cross Jordan in Italy.