In Bede's thirtieth year ( about 702 ) Bede became a priest, with the ordination again performed by Bishop John.

The bishops in the 2nd century are defined also as the only clergy to whom the ordination to priesthood ( presbyterate ) and diaconate is entrusted: " a priest ( presbyter ) lays on hands, but does not ordain.

In the Anglican churches and some Lutheran churches the traditional orders of bishop, priest and deacon are bestowed using ordination rites.

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 ; 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 to the two deacons who so present a priest-elect ) is escorted three times around the Holy Table by a deacon, and he kneels on only one knee during the Prayer of Cheirotonia.

As seen in the saga of Hrafnkell Freysgoði, however, being a priest consisted merely of offering periodic sacrifices to the Norse gods and goddesses ; it was not a full-time role, nor did it involve ordination.

The role of a priest in the Anglican Communion is largely the same as within the Roman Catholic Church and Eastern Christianity, except that canon law in almost every Anglican province restricts the administration of confirmation to the bishop, just as with ordination.

As Anglicanism represents a broad range of theological opinion, its presbyterate includes priests who consider themselves no different in any respect from those of the Roman Catholic Church, and a minority who prefer to use the title presbyter in order to distance themselves from the more sacrificial theological implications which they associate with the word “ priest .” While priest is the official title of a member of the presbyterate in every Anglican province worldwide, the ordination rite of certain provinces ( including the Church of England ) recognizes the breadth of opinion by adopting the title The Ordination of Priests ( also called Presbyters ).

As well as translating " Et cum spiritu tuo " as " And with your spirit ", which some scholars suggest refers to the gift of the spirit the priest received at ordination, in the Niceno-Constantinopolitan Creed " consubstantial with the Father " was used as a translation of " consubstantialem Patri " ( in Greek " ὁμοούσιον τῷ Πατρί "), instead of " of one Being with the Father " ( or, in the United States only, " one in Being with the Father "), and the phrase, formerly translated as " It will be shed for you and for all so that sins may be forgiven ," was translated literally as " which will be poured out for you and for many for the forgiveness of sins " ( see Pro multis ).

* They claim that the new rites of ordination and consecration are invalid, for not explicitly endowing the priest with the power to " offer Mass for the living and the dead ", but simply, they say, " to preside over the assembly of the people ".

However, soon after this ordination, perhaps in 808, Theodore began to express his unwillingness to associate with the rehabilitated priest Joseph, or for that matter with anyone else who knowingly associated with him, as he held the rehabilitation for uncanonical.

This lineal succession of Sufi guides is the nearest approach within Islam to the concept of Christian ordination and apostolic succession, but the similarity is superficial and a murshid is not a priest but merely a teacher of Sufi philosophy ; they do not have any special or higher position than any other Muslim.

He returned to Haiti in 1982 for his ordination as a Salesian priest, and was appointed curate of a small parish in Port-au-Prince.

* Translation of a Delp sermon about his ordination as priest

Since then, while maintaining her singing career, she has occasionally encountered controversy, partly due to her statements and gestures such as her ordination as a priest despite being female with a Roman Catholic background, and her expressed strong views on organized religion, women's rights, war, and child abuse.

Because of his Methodist activities he was refused ordination as a priest in 1743 and from then on he committed himself entirely to that movement.

is a requirement for ordination as a priest or priestess in Ecclesia Gnostica Catholica ).

The LCMS does not believe ordination is divinely instituted or an extension of an episcopal form of apostolic succession but sees the office grounded in the Word and Sacrament ministry of the Gospel, arguing that Scripture makes no distinction between a presbyter ( priest ) and a bishop ( see Treatise on the Power and Primacy of the Pope, paragraphs 63, 64, citing St. Jerome ).

It teaches that the Church's relationship with God is independent of whatever ordination people have received, as evidenced by the guidelines and rubrics for personal prayer when no priest is present.

At some unspecified time he had been made deacon by John Aylmer, Bishop of London, and priest by Thomas Cooper, Bishop of Lincoln ; but before long he renounced this ordination as " wholly unlawful.

* Priest's Service Book ( Greek: ῾ Ἱερατικόν, Ieratikon ; Slavonic: Слѹжебникъ, Sluzhebnik ) Contain the portions of the services which are said by the priest and deacon and is given to a deacon and to a priest with his vestments at ordination.

The format of the ceremony for taking the precepts occurs several times in the canon in slightly different forms, and each temple or tradition has slightly different ordination ceremonies.

The Vatican distinguishes between " deep-seated homosexual tendencies " and the " expression of a transitory problem ", in relation to ordination to the priesthood ; saying in a 2005 document that homosexual tendencies " must be clearly overcome at least three years before ordination to the diaconate.

Certain Latin-Rite Catholic priests may receive a dispensation to be married before ordination, and all Eastern Catholic priests outside the United States are also permitted to be married, provided they are so before ordination.

It made the same statement with regard also to later ordinations by those bishops, saying that, " as for those who have already thus unlawfully received ordination or any who may yet accept ordination from these, whatever may be the validity of the orders ( quidquid sit de ordinum validitate ), the Church does not and will not recognise their ordination ( ipsorum ordinationem ), and will consider them, for all legal effects, as still in the state in which they were before, except that the ... penalties remain until they repent " ( Sacred Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, Decree Episcopi qui alios of 17 September 1976-Acta Apostolicae Sedis 1976, page 623 ).

After the Little Entrance, the arch-priest and arch-deacon conduct the bishop-elect before the Royal Gates where he is met by the bishops and kneels before the altar on both knees and the Gospel Book is laid over his head and the consecrating bishops lay their hands upon the Gospel Book, while the prayers of ordination are read by the eldest bishop ; after this, the newly consecrated bishop ascends the synthranon ( bishop's throne in the sanctuary ) for the first time.

Whilst Anglican priests who are members of religious orders must remain celibate ( although there are exceptions, such as priests in the Anglican Order of Cistercians ), the secular clergy – ( bishops, priests, and deacons who are not members of religious orders ) – are permitted to marry before or after ordination.

Most of the leading Puritan divines studied at the University of Oxford or the University of Cambridge before seeking ordination.

), or other equivalent degrees, before commissioning and then ultimately ordination.

In many Eastern churches, some parish priests administer the sacrament of chrismation to infants after baptism, and priests are allowed to marry before ordination.

A polymath whose fields of interest and contribution included law, theology, philosophy, and music, he is said by some sources to have served as a Chief Administrator to the Muslim caliph of Damascus before his ordination.

For a short period of history before the ordination of women as deacons, priests and bishops began within Anglicanism they could be " deaconesses ".

Clerical marriage is not allowed and therefore, if those for whom in some particular Church celibacy is optional ( such as permanent deacons in the Latin Church ) wish to marry, they must do so before ordination.

There are some exceptions to this rule, including Yeshiva University, which requires all rabbinical students to complete an undergraduate degree before entering the program and a Masters or equivalent before ordination.

In the years just prior to the Second Vatican Council, the only men ordained as deacons were seminarians who were completing the last year or so of graduate theological training, who received the order several months before priestly ordination.

Diaconal candidates receive instruction in philosophy, theology, study of the Holy Scriptures ( the Bible ), homiletics, sacramental studies, evangelization, ecclesiology, counseling, and pastoral care and ministry before ordination.

For his proficiency in studies he was appointed lector of philosophy before his ordination to the Catholic priesthood.

Episcopi vagantes may also include some conservative " Continuing Anglicans " who have broken with the Anglican Communion over various issues such as Prayer Book revision, the ordination of women and the ordination of unmarried, non-celibate individuals ( including homosexuals ).

The Book of Common Prayer provides rites for ordination of bishops, priests and deacons.

The modern " Continuing " movement principally dates to the 1977 Congress of St. Louis in the United States, at which meeting participants rejected the ordination of women and the changes that had been made in the Episcopal Church's Book of Common Prayer.

In 1976, the General Convention of the Episcopal Church in the United States of America voted to approve the ordination of women to the priesthood and to the episcopate and also provisionally adopted a new and doctrinally controversial Book of Common Prayer, later called the 1979 version.

However, at his ordination, a deacon will kneel on one knee to the side of the altar, while the bishop lays his hands on the deacon's head to read the Prayer of Cheirotonia over him.

In 1976 the General Convention voted to replace the 1928 Book of Common Prayer with a new prayer book and authorized the ordination of women as priests and bishops.