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An officer in The Salvation Army is a Salvationist who is an ordained minister of the Christian faith, but who fulfills many other roles not usually filled by clergy of other denominations. They do so having been trained, ordained and commissioned to serve and lead and given a title which uses the terms of typical military rank. [1]
Schuller was born in San Juan Capistrano, California, in 1981. His parents divorced when he was a young child. His father is an ordained minister in the Reformed Church in America. In high school he moved with his mother from Los Angeles to Tulsa, Oklahoma, where he met his wife and attended university. They were married in 2003.
The Universal Life Church (or ULC) is a religious organization that offers anyone semi-immediate ordination as a ULC minister free of charge. The organization states that anyone can become a minister immediately, without having to go through the pre-ordination process required by other religious faiths. The ordination application, however, must ...
Karen Oliveto (born April 4, 1958 [1]) is an American bishop.She is the first openly lesbian bishop to be elected in the United Methodist Church.She was elected bishop on July 15, 2016, at the Western Jurisdictional conference. [2]
In common usage, when someone refers to a "minister of the church" they are referring to any one of these "professional" ministers. The Catholic Church identifies five ecclesial vocations, three of which are ordained. Theologians and lay ecclesial ministers are not necessarily ordained, while bishops, presbyters, and deacons are ordained.
Greg Laurie (born December 10, 1952) is an American evangelical pastor, evangelist, and Christian author who serves as the senior pastor of Harvest Christian Fellowship, based in Riverside, California. He also is the founder of Harvest Crusades.
Taylor was ordained as an Episcopal priest and served as the vicar of St. John's Episcopal Church and School, located in Rancho Santa Margarita, Orange County, California. [1] In December 2016, he was elected to serve as bishop coadjutor of the Episcopal Diocese of Los Angeles. In 2017 he succeeded J. Jon Bruno as diocesan bishop.
Sharpton was licensed and ordained a Pentecostal minister by Bishop F. D. Washington at the age of nine [144] or ten. [145] After Bishop Washington's death in the late 1980s, Sharpton became a Baptist. He was re-baptized as a member of the Bethany Baptist Church in 1994 by the Reverend William Augustus Jones [32] and became a Baptist minister ...