Ordination
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Ordination is the process by which individuals are consecrated, that is, set apart and elevated from the laity class to the clergy, who are thus then authorized to perform various religious rites and
Ordination of a Catholic deacon, 1520 AD: the bishop lays his hands on the ordinand
Ordination of a Catholic priest in the extraordinary form of the Roman Rite, 2007
The ordination of Lutheran priests and deacons in Stockholm Cathedral
Ordination of an Orthodox. The deacon being ordained is kneeling with the bishop's omophorion over his head as the bishop blesses him immediately before the Cheirotonia.
Holy orders
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In certain Christian denominations, holy orders are the ordained ministries of bishop, priest, and deacon, and the sacrament or rite by which candidates are ordained to those orders. Churches recogniz
Ordination of John of Matha
Ordination to the Catholic priesthood in the Latin Church. Devotional card, 1925.
Metropolitan Hilarion (Kapral) performs the laying on of hands (Cheirotonia), conferring the holy order of presbyter (priest) upon an Orthodox deacon.
After the transmutation of the Holy Gifts, the bishop presents to the newly ordained priest a portion of the Lamb (i.e., the Body of Christ).