ordination
Ministerial commissioning rite
Ordination is the ceremony or act of making someone a priest, minister, rabbi, or other religious official.
The ritual typically involves laying on of hands and confers religious authority to perform sacred duties: Her ordination as a deacon took place last Sunday.
More broadly, ordination can mean any formal decree or arrangement, though this sense is rare outside legal or theological contexts.
Ordained religious office
- deaconJunior clergy member
- bishopDiocesan clergy head
- ministerReligious leader or serve
- pastorChristian congregation leader
priest · elder · reverend · chaplain · vicar · parson · rector · curate
Sacrament conferring clergy status
- sacramentSacred ritual conveying grace
- graceEffortless beauty of motion
- anointingCeremonial oil application
- chrismConsecrated anointing substance
laying on of hands · charism · seal · episcopate · diaconate
Dedicating to sacred purpose
- investitureCeremony conferring rank
- installationProcess of putting in
- inductionFormal admission process
- laying on of handsRitual healing through touch
commissioning · inauguration · rite · service · blessing · conferral · celebration · liturgy
Strongly felt purpose
- ministryClergy's work or state department
- holy ordersSacrament conferring clergy status
- apostleshipOffice of religious messenger
- serviceAid or maintenance
mission · pastorship · chaplaincy · evangelism · missionary work · religious life · spiritual direction · pastoral care
priesthood
Ordained religious office
pastor · priest · elder · reverend · chaplain · vicar · parson · rector · curate · monsignor
holy orders
Sacrament conferring clergy status
- sacramentSacred ritual conveying grace
- graceEffortless beauty of motion
- anointingCeremonial oil application
chrism · laying on of hands · charism · seal · episcopate · diaconate
consecration
Dedicating to sacred purpose
- investitureCeremony conferring rank
- installationProcess of putting in
- inductionFormal admission process
laying on of hands · commissioning · inauguration · rite · service · blessing · conferral · celebration · liturgy · Mass
calling
Strongly felt purpose
- ministryClergy's work or state department
- holy ordersSacrament conferring clergy status
- apostleshipOffice of religious messenger
service · mission · pastorship · chaplaincy · evangelism · missionary work · religious life · spiritual direction · pastoral care · preaching
stole
Took without permission
- chasubleLiturgical overgarment for clergy
- albLiturgical white robe
- cassockFull-length clerical garment
mitre · surplice · cope · cincture · maniple · biretta · pallium · ring · crozier · vestment
Anglican
Church of England member
- CatholicPapal church adherent
- LutheranReformation-era Protestant denomination
- MethodistProtestant denomination member
Presbyterian · Buddhist · Theravada · Mahayana · sangha · rabbi · semicha · imam · interfaith
- PresbyterianismGeneral Assembly, presbyteries, synods, presbytery, Westminster Confession
- seminaryseminaries, divinity school, seminarian, seminary training, formation
- ceremonieswedding ceremony, wedding, weddings, graduation, graduations
- formal actswedding, baptism, coronation, inauguration, oath
- life changesmarriage, death, divorce, birth, graduation
- Buddhist monksBuddhist monk, Buddhist monks, Buddhist nun, novice monk, novice
ordinationdefrocking
Expelling clergy from ministry
unfrocking · excommunication · deposition · degradation · suspension
ordinationbaptism
Ritual water purification ceremony
funeral rites · confirmation · last rites · burial · marriage
- ordination ceremonyRite conferring holy orders
- ordination of womenAdmitting women to priesthood
coordination, coordinating, subordinating, ordinations, co-ordination, preordination