Kept in the African Methodist Episcopal Church, the first denomination in the United States founded by Black people. Ordination is to the orders of deacon and elder. The episcopacy is an office to which an elder is elected and consecrated, not a third order, which is the settled Methodist difference from Anglican practice.
Kept in the African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church. Ordination is to the orders of deacon and elder. The episcopacy is an office to which an elder is elected and consecrated, not a third order, which is the settled Methodist difference from Anglican practice.
Kept across the provinces of the Anglican Communion. The threefold order of bishops, priests and deacons was retained, and since the twentieth century women have been ordained to all three orders in most provinces, which is the sharpest present difference from Rome and the Orthodox churches.
The threefold order of bishops, priests and deacons was retained, and since the twentieth century women have been ordained to all three orders in most provinces, which is the sharpest present difference from Rome and the Orthodox churches.
Source The Book of Common PrayerChurch of England; ed. Brian Cummings
Kept in the Armenian Apostolic Church. A married man may be ordained deacon or presbyter but not bishop, and bishops are drawn from the monasteries.
A congregation calls and ordains its own pastor, and ordination confers no order and no authority beyond the congregation that gave it. The two scriptural offices are pastor and deacon.
Source The Baptist Faith and MessageSouthern Baptist Convention
Ordination is to the offices of minister, elder and deacon, by a body of ministers rather than by a bishop, and it is not a sacrament.
Source The Westminster Confession of FaithWestminster Assemblythe holders' own account
Kept in the Christian Methodist Episcopal Church. Ordination is to the orders of deacon and elder. The episcopacy is an office to which an elder is elected and consecrated, not a third order, which is the settled Methodist difference from Anglican practice.
Source The Oxford Dictionary of the Christian Church, 3rd revised editionF. L. Cross and E. A. Livingstone (eds.)
Kept in the Church of Cyprus, autocephalous since the Council of Ephesus in 431. A married man may be ordained deacon or presbyter, though not bishop, and a man may not marry after ordination. This is the settled difference from Latin practice.
Kept in the Church of England, the province from which the Prayer Book tradition comes. The threefold order of bishops, priests and deacons was retained, and since the twentieth century women have been ordained to all three orders in most provinces, which is the sharpest present difference from Rome and the Orthodox churches.
Kept in the Church of Greece. A married man may be ordained deacon or presbyter, though not bishop, and a man may not marry after ordination. This is the settled difference from Latin practice.
Kept in the Church of Ireland. The threefold order of bishops, priests and deacons was retained, and since the twentieth century women have been ordained to all three orders in most provinces, which is the sharpest present difference from Rome and the Orthodox churches.
Kept in the Church of Scotland, the established Presbyterian church of that country. Ordination is to the offices of minister, elder and deacon, by a body of ministers rather than by a bishop, and it is not a sacrament.
Kept in the Church of Sweden, which retained the historic episcopate through the Reformation as few Lutheran churches did. Ordination is to the one office of the ministry of word and sacrament, and no man may publicly teach or administer the sacraments unless he is rightly called to it.
Kept in the Church of the Nazarene, which stands in the Wesleyan holiness line. Ordination is to the orders of deacon and elder. The episcopacy is an office to which an elder is elected and consecrated, not a third order, which is the settled Methodist difference from Anglican practice.
Kept in the Coptic Orthodox Church of Alexandria. A married man may be ordained deacon or presbyter but not bishop, and bishops are drawn from the monasteries.
Kept in the Dutch Reformed tradition, which holds the Heidelberg Catechism among its confessional standards. Ordination is to the offices of minister, elder and deacon, by a body of ministers rather than by a bishop, and it is not a sacrament.
A married man may be ordained deacon or presbyter, though not bishop, and a man may not marry after ordination. This is the settled difference from Latin practice.
Source The Orthodox ChurchTimothy Ware (Kallistos Ware)
Kept in the Ecumenical Patriarchate of Constantinople, the see of first honour among the Orthodox churches. A married man may be ordained deacon or presbyter, though not bishop, and a man may not marry after ordination. This is the settled difference from Latin practice.
Kept in the Eritrean Orthodox Tewahedo Church. A married man may be ordained deacon or presbyter but not bishop, and bishops are drawn from the monasteries.
Kept in the Ethiopian Orthodox Tewahedo Church. A married man may be ordained deacon or presbyter but not bishop, and bishops are drawn from the monasteries.
Kept in the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America. Ordination is to the one office of the ministry of word and sacrament, and no man may publicly teach or administer the sacraments unless he is rightly called to it.
Kept in the Free Methodist Church. Ordination is to the orders of deacon and elder. The episcopacy is an office to which an elder is elected and consecrated, not a third order, which is the settled Methodist difference from Anglican practice.
Kept in the Georgian Orthodox Church, which has used its own language and script in worship since the fifth century. A married man may be ordained deacon or presbyter, though not bishop, and a man may not marry after ordination. This is the settled difference from Latin practice.
Kept in the Global Methodist Church, formed in 2022. Ordination is to the orders of deacon and elder. The episcopacy is an office to which an elder is elected and consecrated, not a third order, which is the settled Methodist difference from Anglican practice.
Kept in the Greek Orthodox churches. A married man may be ordained deacon or presbyter, though not bishop, and a man may not marry after ordination. This is the settled difference from Latin practice.
Ordination is to the one office of the ministry of word and sacrament, and no man may publicly teach or administer the sacraments unless he is rightly called to it.
Source The Augsburg ConfessionPhilipp Melanchthon
Married men are ordained to the priesthood in the Middle East, and celibacy has been the practice for Maronite clergy in the diaspora.
Ordination is to the orders of deacon and elder. The episcopacy is an office to which an elder is elected and consecrated, not a third order, which is the settled Methodist difference from Anglican practice.
Source The Book of Discipline of the United Methodist ChurchUnited Methodist Churchthe holders' own account
Kept in the National Baptist Convention of America International. A congregation calls and ordains its own pastor, and ordination confers no order and no authority beyond the congregation that gave it. The two scriptural offices are pastor and deacon.
A married man may be ordained deacon or presbyter but not bishop, and bishops are drawn from the monasteries.
Ordination is by a presbytery, to the office of teaching elder or of ruling elder, and the parity of ministers is the principle the whole polity rests on.
Source The Westminster Confession of FaithWestminster Assemblythe holders' own account
Kept in the Progressive National Baptist Convention. A congregation calls and ordains its own pastor, and ordination confers no order and no authority beyond the congregation that gave it. The two scriptural offices are pastor and deacon.
Ordination is to the diaconate, the presbyterate or the episcopate, and in the Latin church the presbyterate is ordinarily reserved to men who accept celibacy.
Source Catechism of the Catholic Church, 2nd editionHoly Seethe holders' own account
Kept in the Romanian Orthodox Church, the one Orthodox church of the Byzantine tradition whose language is Romance. A married man may be ordained deacon or presbyter, though not bishop, and a man may not marry after ordination. This is the settled difference from Latin practice.
Kept in the Russian Orthodox Church, in the Slavonic recension of the Byzantine books. A married man may be ordained deacon or presbyter, though not bishop, and a man may not marry after ordination. This is the settled difference from Latin practice.
Kept in the Serbian Orthodox Church. A married man may be ordained deacon or presbyter, though not bishop, and a man may not marry after ordination. This is the settled difference from Latin practice.
Kept in the Episcopal Church, whose own Prayer Book descends from the Scottish rather than the English line. The threefold order of bishops, priests and deacons was retained, and since the twentieth century women have been ordained to all three orders in most provinces, which is the sharpest present difference from Rome and the Orthodox churches.
Kept in the United Methodist Church. Ordination is to the orders of deacon and elder. The episcopacy is an office to which an elder is elected and consecrated, not a third order, which is the settled Methodist difference from Anglican practice.
A married man may be ordained to the presbyterate, a right this church retained against long Latin pressure and exercises today.
Kept in the Ukrainian Orthodox Church. A married man may be ordained deacon or presbyter, though not bishop, and a man may not marry after ordination. This is the settled difference from Latin practice.
Kept in the Wesleyan Church. Ordination is to the orders of deacon and elder. The episcopacy is an office to which an elder is elected and consecrated, not a third order, which is the settled Methodist difference from Anglican practice.