** William of Wykeham, Bishop of Winchester ( d. 1404 )

* September 27 – William of Wykeham, English bishop and statesman ( b. 1320 )

However, William of Wykeham ( 1320 – 1404 ) played an important role in the city's restoration.

The day-to-day affairs of the state had less appeal to Edward than military campaigning, so during the 1360s Edward increasingly relied on the help of his subordinates, in particular William Wykeham.

Winchester College was founded in 1382 by William of Wykeham, Bishop of Winchester and Chancellor to both Edward III and Richard II, and the first 70 poor scholars entered the school in 1394.

John impeached William of Wykeham and other leaders of the reform movement, and secured their conviction on old or trumped-up charges.

In 1379, Hart Hall and Black Hall were rented by William of Wykeham as a temporary home for his scholars as his New College, to the east along what became New College Lane, was being built.

The second college in Oxford to be dedicated to the Blessed Virgin Mary, it was founded by William of Wykeham, Bishop of Winchester as " The College of St Mary of Winchester in Oxford ".

When William of Wykeham founded the College, he formally agreed to maintain the City Wall when he acquired the land on which to build the College.

As part of the original College statutes, William of Wykeham provided for a choral foundation of lay and academical clerks, with boy choristers to sing mass and the daily offices.

The College's motto, created by William of Wykeham, is " Manners Makyth Man ".

Henry had belatedly learned of William of Wykeham's 1379 twin foundation of New College, Oxford and Winchester College, and wanted his own achievements to surpass those of Wykeham.

In 1373 he declared in convocation that he would not contribute to a subsidy until the evils from which the church suffered were removed ; in 1375 he incurred the displeasure of the king by publishing a papal bull against the Florentines ; and in 1377 his decided action during the quarrel between John of Gaunt and William of Wykeham ended in a temporary triumph for the bishop.

It was the birthplace of William of Wykeham, founder of Winchester College and New College, Oxford.

William of Wykeham ( 1320 or 1324 – 27 September 1404 ) was Bishop of Winchester, Chancellor of England, founder of Winchester College, New College, Oxford, New College School, Oxford, and builder of a large part of Windsor Castle.

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* Moberly, G. H. Life of William Wykeham.

* Walcott, Mackenzie Edward Charles William of Wykeham and his Colleges.

* Augusta Theodosia Drane, The Three Chancellors, or Sketches of the Lives of William of Wykeham, William of Waynflete and Sir Thomas More.

* Virginia Davis, William Wykeham: a life.

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Also, William Hammet ( a missionary ordained by Wesley who traveled to America from Antigua with Bishop Coke ), led a successful revolt against the MEC in 1791.

There is record of a John Knox being ordained a presbyter by the Bishop of Dunblane, William Chisholm, on 15 April 1536.

Stephen Childe ( 1807 – 1923 ) had been the son of William Childe, a stern English priest and teacher, and had followed in his father's footsteps by being ordained into the Church of England in 1867 after gaining a BA from the University of Cambridge.

Dr. William Cassidy, a Toronto medical doctor, was ordained as the Christian and Missionary Alliance's first missionary preacher.

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.

William McCary was ordained in Nauvoo in 1846 by Apostle Orson Hyde.

William was paid for these services by being given the incomes of various churches, and eventually, in 1362, he was ordained.

Foxe was ordained deacon by Nicholas Ridley on 24 June 1550, and his circle of friends, associates, and supporters included John Hooper, William Turner, John Rogers, William Cecil, and most importantly John Bale, who was to become a close friend and " certainly encouraged, very probably guided, Foxe in the composition of his first martyrology.

He became a preacher in 1802 and was later ordained by Francis Asbury and William McKendree.

William Jethro Walthall ( 1858 – 1931 ) was ordained as a Missionary Baptist preacher on May 29, 1887.

The first ordained Baptist preacher to travel to South Africa was William Davies, who was sent by the Baptist Missionary Society in England.

He is probably the William Barbour who was ordained acolyte by Bishop Fleming of Lincoln on 21 April 1420 and subdeacon on 21 January 1421 ; and as William Barbour, otherwise Waynflete of Spalding, was ordained deacon on 18 March 1421, and priest on 21 January 1426, with title from Spalding Priory.

Residing in Ipswich and, despite neither having been ordained as a minister or trained as a physician, Rogers practiced medicine and assisted in the ministry of his brother-in-law, local historian William Hubbard, whose service as Ipswich pastor ultimately extended for more than 50 years.

In addition, churches that were independently founded by ministers who were ordained or directly influenced by the church's founder, Robert C. Lawson, or his spiritual successor, William L. Bonner, may also look to Greater Refuge Temple as their mother church, including the Progressive Church of Our Lord Jesus Christ, the Evangelistic Church of Christ, and many others.

His father, who was also named William Price ( 1761 -), was an ordained priest in the Church of England who had studied at Jesus College, Oxford, whilst his mother, Mary Edmunds ( 1767 – 1844 ), was an uneducated Welshwoman who had been a maidservant prior to her marriage.

Medhurst was ordained at Malacca in 1819, and engaged in missionary labours, first at Penang, then at Batavia-and finally, when peace was concluded with China in 1842, at Shanghai where he founded the London Missionary Society Press ( 墨海書館 ) together with William Muirhead, Joseph Edkins, and William Charles Milne.

Shortly after being ordained, William Branham was baptising converts on June 11, 1933 in the Ohio River near Jeffersonville.

He was ordained alongside his fellow American, William Levada, who would become a cardinal and prefect of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith.

Wight was ordained president of his own church, but he later sided with the claims of William Smith and eventually of Joseph Smith III.