deacon
Yes, a pastor can officiate the ordination or licensing of a pastor, however the church or denomination, however you wish to call it would be the overseeing body or organization behind the actual ordination.
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You are usually called a Candidate
Someone who is going to be receiving confirmation in the Catholic Church is typically referred to as a "confirmation candidate."
You go to your pastor and announce to him that you have a calling by God to mininster to his people. Then pastor can ordain you as a mininster or they can require you to go to some classed 1st and then be ordained as one.
Lay persons or laity
Most definitely! All male pastors employed by the church are ordained, as well as local church elders and deacons of both sexes. Female pastors in the North American Division have a similar ceremony known as "commissioning" (female ordination is a hot topic in Adventism because the Seventh-day Adventist Church is a worldwide organization and women as pastors are not accepted in some cultures and places). Adventists believe that ordination is a ceremony which publicly recognizes God's call on someone to serve Him in a particular capacity in the church (similar to the way they view baptism as a public acknowledgement of the choice to accept Jesus as one's personal Savior). Ordination also serves as an opportunity to welcome them into their new role, not to mention a chance to ask God's blessing and guidance on that person as they take on a new function.
You generally present yourself to your local church as answering a call to the ministry. It is then up to the church to vote if they agree that your calling is valid. Not the same as being ordained. You generally present yourself to your local church as answering a call to the ministry. It is then up to the church to vote if they agree that your calling is valid. Not the same as being ordained.
No, when he was ordained a bishop by Pope Celestine I his name was changed.
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The word "ordination" means to be "chosen","consecrated", "set apart". Many religious groups have a ceremony during which certain people are officially chosen for ministry. The purpose of having a ceremony is to publicly call a person to service and to enable the person called to make a commitment before the people. Human beings have long valued the practice of public ceremonies as a rite of passage and/or commitment, and they are found in many formats: weddings, baptisms, graduations, ordinations, swearing in of political leaders, military passing-out parades, embracing the spiritual life of a monk or nun. In the various Protestant traditions ordination is seen as an acceptance of a person being called by God though, properly speaking, no call can be disputed as it is a form of private revelation. In the Catholic, Orthodox, Coptic and Anglican traditions ordination is not only a public acknowledgement of a call by God, but also the Church's acceptance that an individual has, in truth, been called. In the Catholic, Eastern Orthodox, Oriental Orthodox, Old Catholic and Anglican churches, ordination is identified with the sacraments of Holy Orders and is the means by which one is included in one of the three major orders: bishop, presbyter (priest) or deacon. In Protestant churches ordination is not considered to be a sacrament. Buddhist monks are ordained into one of three lineages. Islam does not ordain its clerics.
A call to prayer is a public proclamation, which is made five times a day in Muslim societies to mark out the ordained occasions for worship in mosques.