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If the consecration takes place within the diocese, he takes charge immediately. If it occurs elsewhere, a separate act is required, after the consecration, for taking possession of his new post. [16] Bringing the process to a conclusion requires much time, usually taking at least nine months, and it may on occasion take up to two years.
Installation is a Christian liturgical act that formally allows a cleric to assume the office of his appointed position at a particular place such as a cathedral.
Where a parish priest has been named to pastor a defined community, but circumstances do not permit it to be formally erected as a parish, the congregation is recognized as a quasi-parish. [16] Quasi-parishes would be found in new mission churches, called "missions" of the mother parish, in new neighborhoods, and in communities too small to ...
Ordination of a Catholic deacon, 1520 AD: the bishop bestows vestments.. 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 (usually by the denominational hierarchy composed of other clergy) to perform various religious rites and ceremonies. [1]
From 1925 until 2010, a candidate for either stream of ordered ministry did not choose his or her first congregation, but instead, in a process called Transfer and Settlement, the person was sent to a pastoral charge or recognized ministry somewhere in Canada that had requested a minister.
In 1979, after the United States National Conference of Catholic Bishops and the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith had reacted favourably to the proposals that had been put before them, a formal request for union was presented in Rome on 3 November for acceptance into the Roman Catholic Church, for steps to be taken to eliminate any ...
Installation, called corporal or real institution, is the induction into the actual possession of a benefice. In the case of a bishop it is known as enthronization or enthronement . Corporal institution, according to common law, belongs to the archdeacon ; by custom to the bishop or his vicar-general.
A pastoral charge (from the word pastor), in Methodist churches, consists of one or more congregations under the spiritual leadership of a minister or ministry team. The minister is responsible for providing pastoral care , leading church services , and administering the sacraments in all the churches within the charge.