Christian Orders - Holy Orders, Third Order, Desert Fathers, Order of Saint Lazarus, Holy Order of Mans, Taize Community (Paperback)

Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 39. Chapters: Holy Orders, Third order, Desert Fathers, Order of Saint Lazarus, Holy Order of MANS, Taize Community, Anglican religious order, Congregation of Christian Brothers in New Zealand, Desert Mothers, Modderpoort, Military order, Order of St. Luke, Order of St. Thomas, Volkenroda Abbey, Annunciade, International Order of St. Luke the Physician, Order of Watchers, Evangelical Sisterhood of Mary, Bose Monastic Community, Members of the covenant, Sisters of Notre Dame of Coesfeld, Reformed Society of Jesus, Order of St. Adrian IV. Excerpt: The term Holy Orders is used by many Christian churches to refer to ordination or to those individuals ordained for a special role or ministry. In the Roman Catholic (Latin: sacri ordines), Eastern Catholic, Eastern Orthodox (,, ), Oriental Orthodox, Anglican, Assyrian, Old Catholic, Independent Catholic churches and some Lutheran churches Holy Orders refers to the three orders of bishop, priest and deacon, or the sacrament or rite by which candidates are ordained to those orders. These churches regard ordination as a sacrament (the sacramentum ordinis). Protestant denominations have varied conceptions of church offices. In the Anglican tradition and some Lutheran churches the traditional orders of bishop, priest and deacon are also bestowed using ordination rites. The extent to which ordination is considered sacramental in these traditions has, however, been a matter of some internal dispute. Many other denominations do not consider the role of ministry as being sacramental in nature and would not think of it in terms of "holy orders" as such. Historically, the word "order" (Latin ordo) designated an established civil body or corporation with a hierarchy, and ordinatio meant legal incorporation into an ordo. The word "holy" refers to the Church. In context, ...