ordinations

Making ministers official

Ordinations are ceremonies in which people are formally admitted to religious ministry or holy orders.

A priest, minister, rabbi, or other clergy member receives ordination as the ritual conferring authority to perform religious duties.

The term can also refer more broadly to the act of ordering or arranging things in sequence, though the religious sense dominates: Three ordinations were scheduled for the cathedral this spring.

religious

priesthood

Ordained religious office

clergyOrdained religious officials collectively
bishopDiocesan clergy head
deaconJunior clergy member

seminary · vows · consecration · laying on of hands · ministry · holy orders · sacrament · vestments · cathedral · diocese

ceremonial

rituals

Ceremonial repeated practices

ceremoniesFormal observances with ritual
investitureCeremony conferring rank
processionFormal moving line

robes · altar · congregation · blessing · incense · chanting · liturgy · mass · installation · induction

administrative

appointments

Scheduled times for meetings

designationsAssigned names or titles
assignmentsAllocated duties or tasks
positionsLocations or viewpoints held

authorization · commissioning · installation · conferment · official · institutional · hierarchy · rank · status · decree

buddhist

sangha

Buddhist religious community

monksCloistered religious men
noviceInexperienced newcomer to field
robesLong loose outer garments

monastery · dharma · precepts · alms bowl · head shaving · renunciation · meditation · Theravada · Mahayana · vinaya

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