enow.com Web Search

Search results

  1. Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
  2. Edwardine Ordinals - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edwardine_Ordinals

    The traditio instrumentorum has remained excluded from most Anglican ordination rituals following the 1552 ordinal, though it was reintroduced as an optional ceremony within ordinations according to the Church of England's Common Worship, a series of liturgical texts introduced in 2000 to serve as an alternative to the 1662 prayer book. There ...

  3. Ordination - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ordination

    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]

  4. Ordinal (liturgy) - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ordinal_(liturgy)

    The 1662 prayer book would be the first to include the ordinal not only as a text bound with the prayer book but an integral part of a single comprehensive liturgical book. [ 12 ] : 3 Simultaneously, the formula for the ordination of priests was modified to explicitly tie the Holy Spirit 's descent on a presbyterial candidate to the imposition ...

  5. Book of Common Prayer - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Book_of_Common_Prayer

    The full name of the 1662 Book of Common Prayer is The Book of Common Prayer and Administration of the Sacraments and other Rites and Ceremonies of the Church, according to the use of the Church of England, Together with the Psalter or Psalms of David, pointed as they are to be Sung or said in churches: And the Form and Manner of Making, ordaining, and Consecrating of Bishops, Priests, and ...

  6. Holy orders - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holy_Orders

    The ordination of a deacon occurs after the Anaphora (Eucharistic Prayer) since his role is not in performing the Holy Mystery but consists only in serving; [11] the ceremony is much the same as at the ordination of a priest, but the deacon-elect is presented to the people and escorted to the holy doors by two sub-deacons (his peers, analogous ...

  7. Apostolic Constitutions - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apostolic_Constitutions

    It is also known as the Epitome, and usually named Epitome of the eighth Book of the Apostolic Constitutions (or sometime titled The Constitutions of the Holy Apostles concerning ordination through Hippolytus or simply The Constitutions through Hippolytus) containing a re-wording of chapters 1–2, 4–5, 16–28, 30–34, 45-46 of the eighth ...

  8. Christian laying on of hands - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christian_laying_on_of_hands

    Laying on of hands Finnish Lutheran ordination in Oulu. In Christianity, the laying on of hands (Greek: cheirotonia – χειροτονία, literally, "laying-on of hands") is both a symbolic and formal method of invoking the Holy Spirit primarily during baptisms and confirmations, healing services, blessings, and ordination of priests, ministers, elders, deacons, and other church officers ...

  9. Holy orders in the Catholic Church - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holy_orders_in_the...

    Priests lay their hands on the ordinands during a Catholic rite of ordination. The sacrament of holy orders in the Catholic Church includes three orders: bishops, priests, and deacons, in decreasing order of rank, collectively comprising the clergy. In the phrase "holy orders", the word "holy" means "set apart for a sacred purpose".