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the moment a regular human gets divine permission slips to officiate your wedding.
means The formal ceremony or process by which someone is officially granted religious authority, typically to serve as a priest, minister, or member of the clergy.
from From Latin 'ordinatio,' meaning a setting in order or arrangement, from 'ordo' (rank, order, row) — the same root that gives us 'order' and 'ordinary.' The idea is one of placing someone into their proper rank or station, slotting them neatly into the sacred hierarchy. The religious sense of admitting someone to holy orders rides in on that same notion of arranging people into their appointed places.
- online minutes
- Internet churches ordain anyone in under five minutes
- laying hands
- Most traditions involve elders physically touching the candidate's head
- gender battles
- Women's ordination still splits major denominations today
- wedding loophole
- Friends get ordained just to marry friends legally
- ancient roots
- The practice predates Christianity in Jewish rabbinic tradition
thomas becket's ordination — archbishop of canterbury ordained 1162, became martyr in his own cathedral
first female bishop ordination — barbara harris ordained as episcopal bishop in 1989 in boston
john paul ii's ordination — ordained priest 1946 in krakow, became pope 1978