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- a person becomes a reader. Readers, like subdeacons, are ordained by Cheirothesia - literally, "to place hands" - whereas Cheirotonia - "to stretch out...
- through cheirotonia (laying on of hands) but through a blessing known as cheirothesia (setting-aside). These clerical ranks are subdeacon, reader and altar...
- priests and deacons) which is distinguished from the blessing (called cheirothesia) of the lower clergy (taper bearers, readers and subdeacons) as well...
- part of the sacrament of Holy Orders; in the Eastern Orthodox, the term Cheirothesia ("imposition of hands") is used for such ordinations in contrast to Cheirotonia...
- Eastern Orthodox Church also has ordination to minor orders (known as cheirothesia, "imposition of hands") which is performed outside of the Divine Liturgy...
- an archpriest is analogous to other clerical promotions bestowed with cheirothesia: at the little entrance of the divine liturgy, the candidate is conducted...
- argues that the use of the verb cheirotonein and of the substantive cheirothesia clearly indicate that women deacons were ordained by the laying on of...
- Distinguished into Three Parts, London, 1630 VindiciƦ Pietatis, London, 1660 Cheirothesia Tou Presbyteriou, or A Letter to a Friend, London, 1661 The Godly Mans...
- deacons was not a cheirotonia, or ordination to major orders, but a cheirothesia, a blessing that signifies installation to a minor order. The church...