Holy Orders
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Holy Orders
Celebrating the Sacrament of Holy Orders
The Ordination of Bishops
Holy Orders is celebrated and exercised in 3 degrees:
1. Episcopacy11. Presbyterate111. Diaconate
The Ordination of Priests
The Ordination of Deacons
-Fullness of Holy orders- The ordinart confers the sacrament on the bishop-elect through laying on of hands and a consecratory prayer-Recieves Book of the Gospels, ring, mitre, and crosier
-Presented to the bishop after assent of the community-The bishop confers the sacrament on the ordinand through laying on of hands and a consecratory prayer-Recieves a stole and a chasuble and has hands anointed with chrism
-Transitional or permanent-The bishop confers the sacrament on the ordinand through laying on of hands and a consecratory prayer-Recieves Book of the Gospels, a stole, and a dalmatic
Holy Orders conforms the ordained minister even more closely to Christ, giving him an indelible character
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