Pastor
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A pastor is the leader of a Christian congregation who also gives advice and counsel to people from the community or congregation. In Lutheranism, Catholicism, Eastern Orthodoxy, Oriental Orthodoxy an
A pastor with an open Bible on a stand
Christ's Charge to Peter by Raphael, 1515. In telling Peter to feed his sheep, Christ appointed him as a pastor.
Two Catholic priests in Rome
A Lutheran priest of the Church of Sweden prepares for the celebration of Mass in Strängnäs Cathedral.
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
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…to people from the community or congregation. In Lutheranism, Catholicism, Eastern Orthodoxy, Oriental Orthodoxy and Anglicanism, pastors are always ordained. In Methodism, pastors may be either licensed or ordained. The word pastor is derived from a Latin word meaning "shepherd", and the terms "pastor" 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.