[The ones that say they worship the God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob are ordained by what they call the laying on of hands by another human being, where in the one living God appointed the men from the tribe of Levi to serve Him in the office of priest and after He came to earth as a human being by the name of Jesus, He appointed His Son Jesus Christ as His high Priest forever.] ______________ [The key to this is that the one living God is spirit and not a person whom He created. Also the one living God says through His Son Jesus Christ how the Father anhe are to be worshiped ] Joh 4:21-26 Jesus said, Lady, believe me, the time is coming when you will worship the Father neither on this mountain nor in Jerusalem. You people dont know what you are worshipping; we worship what we do know, because salvation comes from the Jews. But the time is coming — indeed, its here now — when the true worshippers will worship the Father spiritually and truly, for these are the kind of people the Father wants worshipping him. God is spirit; and worshippers must worship him spiritually and truly. The woman replied, I know that the Messiah is coming (that is, the one who has been anointed). When he comes, he will tell us everything. Jesus said to her, I, the person speaking to you, am he. _________________ [Ordination is a doctrine made up by men.] Ordination is the process by which individuals are consecrated, that is, set apart as clergy to perform various religious rites and ceremonies. The process and ceremonies of ordination varies by religion and denomination. One who is in preparation for, or who is undergoing the process of ordination is sometimes called an ordinand. The liturgy used at an ordination is sometimes referred to as an ordinal. ----------------- (Christianity; Roman Catholic, Orthodox, and Anglican churches) Ordination is one of the seven sacraments, variously called holy orders or cheirotonia (Laying on of Hands). Apostolic succession is considered an essential and necessary concept for ordination, in the belief that all ordained clergy are ordained by bishops who were ordained by other bishops tracing back to bishops ordained by the Apostles who were ordained by Christ, the great High Priest who conferred his priesthood upon his Apostles There are three degrees of ordination (or holy orders): deacon, presbyter, and bishop. Both bishops and presbyters are priests and have authority to celebrate the Eucharist. In common use, however, the term priest, when unqualified, refers to the rank of presbyter, whereas presbyter is mainly used in rites of ordination and other places where a technical and precise term is required. Ordination of a bishop is performed by several bishops; ordination of a priest or deacon is performed by a single bishop. The ordination of a new bishop is also called a consecration. Many ancient sources specify that at least three bishops are necessary to consecrate another, e.g., the 13th Canon of the Council of Carthage (AD 394) states, A bishop should not be ordained except by many bishops, but if there should be necessity he may be ordained by three, and the first of The Canons of the Holy and Altogether August Apostles states, Let a bishop be ordained by two or three bishops, while the second canon thereof states, Let a presbyter, deacon, and the rest of the clergy, be ordained by one bishop; the latter canons, whatever their origin, were imposed on the universal church by the Seventh Ecumenical Council, the Second Council of Nicaea, in its first canon. Only a person ordained to the priesthood may administer most sacraments, e.g., hear confessions or celebrate the Eucharist. Ordination of an Orthodox priest. The deacon being ordained is kneeling with the bishops omophorion over his head and is being blessed by the bishop straightway before the Cheirotonia. Eastern Orthodox subdeacon being ordained to the diaconate. The bishop has placed his omophorion and right hand on the head of the candidate and is reading the Prayer of Cheirotonia. ---------------------- The ordination of women in the Anglican Communion has been increasingly common in certain provinces since the 1970s. Several provinces, however, and certain dioceses within otherwise ordaining provinces, continue to ordain only men. Disputes over the ordination of women have contributed to the establishment and growth of conservative separatist tendencies, such the Anglican realignment and Continuing Anglican movements. ========== Ordination of priests The first woman ordained to the priesthood in the Anglican Communion was Florence Li Tim-Oi, who was ordained on January 25, 1944 by Ronald Hall, Bishop of Victoria, Hong Kong in response to the crisis among Anglican Christians in China caused by the Japanese invasion. To avoid controversy, she resigned her licence (though not her priestly orders) after the end of the war. In 1971, the Synod of Hong Kong and Macao became the first Anglican province to officially permit the ordination of women to the priesthood. Jane Hwang and Joyce Bennett were ordained as priests by Bishop Gilbert Baker. At the same time, Li Tim-Oi was officially recognised again as a priest.[2] In 1974, in the United States, 11 women (known as the Philadelphia Eleven) were controversially ordained to the priesthood in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, by three retired Episcopal Church bishops. Four more women (the Washington Four) were ordained in 1975 in Washington D.C. All of these ordinations were ruled irregular because they had been done without the authorization of the Episcopal Churchs General Convention. The ordinations were regularized in 1976 following the approval by the General Convention of measures to provide for the ordination of women to the priesthood and the episcopate.[3] The first regular ordination occurred on January 1, 1977, when the Rev Jacqueline Means was ordained at the Episcopal Church of All Saints, Indianapolis.[4] In 1975, the General Synod of the Anglican Church of Canada (ACC) passed enabling legislation for women priests; the first six women priests in the ACC were ordained on November 30, 1976.[5] In 1977, the Anglican Church in New Zealand ordained five female priests.[6] In 1980, the Anglican Church of Kenya agreed in principle that women could be ordained, and that each diocese was to be autonomous in taking up the issue. In 1983, the Bishop of the Diocese of Maseno South in the Anglican Church of Kenya ordained the Rev Lucia Okuthe as priest.[7] In the same year, the Bishop of Kigezi in the Church of Uganda ordained three women as priest, Rev Monica Sebidega, Rev Deborah Micungwa Rukara and Rev Margaret Kizanye Byekwaso.[8] Formal legislation for the ordination of women as priests was ultimately approved in both provinces in 1990. In 1990, Irene Templeton and Kathleen Young were the first women to be ordained as priests in the Church of Ireland[9] In 1992, the general synod of the Anglican Church of Australia approved legislation allowing dioceses to decide whether to ordain women to the priesthood. In the same year, 90 women were ordained in Australia and two others who had been ordained overseas were recognised. Also in 1992, the Church of Southern Africa authorised the ordination of women as priests, and in September of that year the Rev Prof Nancy Charlton, the Rev Dr Bride Dickson and the Rev Sue Groves were ordained in the Diocese of Grahamstown. The General Synod of the Church of England passed a vote to ordain women in 1992 however it proved controversial. The Act of Synod, passed in 1993, along with further legislation, allowed parishes and male priests to refuse to ordain women. In 1994 Englands first two women priests were ordained.[10] The experience of the first women priests and their congregations was the premise of the television programme The Vicar of Dibley.[11] The legality of the ordination of women in the Church of England was challenged in civil courts by Paul Williamson and others. By 2004, one in five priests was a woman.[10] In 1994, in the Diocese of Barbados, Rev Sonia Hinds and Rev Beverley Sealy became the first women to be ordained as deacons in the Church in the Province of the West Indies on July 25, Feast of St. James. In 1996 on May 31, on the Feast of the Visitation of Mary to Elizabeth, both women were ordained as priests. The Rt Rev Rufus Brome, the first Barbadian born bishop, presided at both ordinations at the Cathedral of St. Michael and All Angels in Bridgetown, Barbados. The first woman ordained in the Philippines Independent Church was the Rev Rosalina Villaruel Rabaria who was ordained priest on February 9, 1997, in the Diocese of Aklan and Capiz. ================= Ordination of bishops The first woman bishop in the Anglican Communion was Barbara Harris, who was ordained suffragan bishop of Massachusetts in the United States in February 1989. Approximately 20 women have since been elected to the episcopate across the church. The election in December 2009 and consecration on May 15, 2010 of the Rt Rev Mary Douglas Glasspool, who is openly gay and lives with her partner of 20 years, as a suffragan bishop in the Diocese of Los Angeles attracted worldwide attention owing to the continued controversy over gay bishops in Anglicanism.[12] The Episcopal Church in the United States has also elected the first woman primate (or senior bishop of a national church), the Most Rev Dr Katharine Jefferts Schori, who was elected as Presiding Bishop and Primate of the Episcopal Church at the 2006 General Convention. She began her nine year term on November 3, 2006.
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