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[ Created: 2025-12-06 09:56:57  Updated: 2025-12-06 09:57:42 Owner: rl ]
Title: Formal commissioning of servants    
  
  
  
  

    

  
  
  
  


Holy Orders is a Catholic sacrament through which men are ordained as bishops, priests, or deacons, receiving the authority and grace to perform their sacred duties.   This sacrament continues the mission Christ gave to his apostles and involves a public rite where a bishop lays hands on a candidate, conferring a gift of the Holy Spirit.   The three levels, or "degrees," are the episcopate (bishop), the presbyterate (priest), and the diaconate (deacon - AI