Questions tagged [ordination]
The ordaining or appointing of a person to a role, in Christian contexts usually referring to deacons, ministers/pastors/priests, and bishops.
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Must a man first be a priest before being consecrated a bishop?
Must a man first be a priest before being consecrated a bishop?
In other words: Who exactly can receive episcopal consecration?
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Is attending a priestly ordination, bishop's consecration, or religious profession an indulgenced act (pious work)?
Is attending a priestly ordination, bishop's consecration, or religious profession an indulgenced act (pious work)?
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Were the reformers able to ordain other people to be elders, deacons, and bishops?
I know that the major reformers like Martin Luther, Zwingli, John Calvin, etc. were Roman Catholic priests that became Protestant. According to Roman Catholicism and Eastern Orthodoxy, priests can't ...
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Did priests ever ordain other priests?
It’s often claimed that only bishops can could ever validly ordain priests. This is certainly true for modern Catholic practice. I recall reading somewhere though that priests ordaining other priests ...
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Foreordination - based on choices in premortal or in mortal life?
I am slightly confused about foreordination.
What I thought I had understood was that foreordination is happening in the premortal life retro-causally because of the faith and good choices in this ...
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Who are the remaining Apostolic Succession lineages that are non-Rebiban Succession?
If 95% of Catholic bishops today can trace their line of apostolic succession through Cardinal Scipione Rebiba; who are the 5% remaining lineages traced through?
Who was Scipione Rebiba?
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What is the general survey, of pre-Vatican 2 Catholic tradition, for interpreting 1 Timothy 2:12 in a cultural/time bound manner?
Back in 1874, the American Protestant theologian, John W. Haley wrote one of the definitive works which defended the inerrancy and infallibility of Scripture. In his book, he argued:
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Theoretically, could a lay person, by virtue of their baptism, validly consecrate Holy Eucharist?
Does the ability to validly consecrate Eucharist come from our baptism? Does ordination add an extra power not given in baptism? Or is ordination simply the act of setting aside a baptized person for ...
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When do adult male LDS converts receive what priesthood?
It's standard for boys growing up in the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS) to receive certain priesthood offices at defined age milestones.
How does ordination to priesthood offices ...
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Commissioned or Ordained? [closed]
Why would a church choose to ‘commission’ female as pastors and ‘ordain’ male pastors? Is there a difference?
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Are the ordination-statuses in this list exclusive and comprehensive?
I'm constructing a survey of Anglican worshippers in England. One of the questions asks about ordination-status, with the following options:
I am ordained
I am a curate
I am a licensed lay-person
I ...
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In what ways is the term "priesthood" used in Catholic tradition?
In what ways does "priesthood" get used within Catholic tradition and theology? Besides "ministerial" and the "universal priesthood of all believers," does the concept ...
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In the Eastern Orthodox tradition, is it possible to laicize a bishop?
In the Roman Catholic Church, priests are sometimes laicized, either at their own request or as a punishment. It's unclear to me who exactly in the Roman Catholic has the power to laicize a priest, ...
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Does Mary possess the episcopal dignity like that of a bishop to "lay hands" to confer the gifts of the Holy Spirit not possessed by ordinary priest? [duplicate]
In the Book of Acts the Sacraments of Confirmation of baptized Catholic were confer thru the episcopal powers of the Apostles who had received or bestowed upon the power of a Bishop.
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Was 30 the canonical age for Catholic priesthood in the 1700s?
I understand that the current canonical age for Catholic ordination is 25 years. Was the minimum previously 30 years?
The documentation of a priest's ordination in 1775 shows that the diocese spent ...
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Was any transgender person ever ordained as a Catholic priest?
We find this entry in the Wikipedia:
"Theodora of Alexandria was a saint and Desert Mother who was married to a prefect of Egypt. In order to perform penance for a sin she committed, she disguised ...
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What is seen to actually occur if a female were to be the subject of laying on of the hands in ordination?
What is seen to actually occur if a female were to be the subject of laying on of the hands in ordination?
The CCC 1577 states that "...the ordaination of women is not possible".
What (in the ...
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According to Protestants, must clergy be ordained by other ordained clergy?
Some of the initial leaders of the Reformation, who presumably ordained later Protestant clergy, were ordained priests in the Catholic Church. But, in (denominational, rather than congregationalist) ...
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Evidence that Peter alone was made a Bishop by Christ?
This got my attention. Although I don't currently agree with it, it's an intriguing question which I am open to accept if sufficient evidence is found. Now when I read classical works on the Papacy (...
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Do all Catholic seminary schools require instruction in Latin and/or Greek?
My son has shown an interest in the priesthood. He seems to have the right psychosexual and behavioral characteristics. Among other reasons, notably, he has no interest in physically intimate ...
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When was the first African American ordained in a US Presbyterian denomination?
In Presbyterianism, a distinction is typically made between preachers who are "licensed" and those who are "ordained." One who is licensed has permission to preach regularly in a particular ...
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How do denominations that ordain women at the same time justify not ordaining homosexuals?
There are many verses in the New Testament that outline the role of women in the church.
1 Corinthians 14:34: Women should remain silent in the churches. They are not allowed to speak, but must be in ...
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Why doesn't the Catholic Church ordain women to be deacons?
I understand that women within the Roman Catholic Church and I am guessing in the Eastern Rite Catholic Churches as well, cannot be ordained Priests.
What I am wondering, is why they cannot be ...
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I am a free will baptist ordained minister, and I want to join a baptist church, do I need to be ordained again? [closed]
I am a free will gospel Minister, if I join a Baptist church, do I have to ordained again?
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What is the evidence that Ignatius of Antioch was ordained by the Apostles?
What evidence do we possess today indicating that Ignatius of Antioch was ordained by the Apostles?
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What is meant by "order" in reference to ministries within the Church, and how did its usage come about?
FMS' answer to What are the positions relative to each other in the Catholic church's clerical hierarchy? mentioned a twofold hierarchy in the Church, that of order and that of jurisdiction.
Given ...
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When did the use of formal, seminary-type education begin and why?
When did it become the norm for church leaders to get a formal Christian education and why did that process begin?
When I say formal education I'm not talking about the mentor/mentee style that Jesus ...
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How do non-sacramental denominations identify and ordain pastors and other leaders?
I'm aware that not all Christian denominations call the leaders/pastors of local congregations "priests" (as Catholics, Orthodox, some Anglicans, and apparently some Lutherans do, perhaps among others)...
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How to compare Christian pastor credentials?
Requirements for ordination vary across denominations. Baptists and Pentecostals, for example, will ordain people without even a high school diploma, whereas many of the more liturgical denominations ...
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