Ordination Rites of the Ancient Churches of East and West

This is a study of the early texts used in ordination to the offices of greatest antiquity in the Christian churches of East and West. These offices include bishop, presbyter, deacon, deaconess, subdeacon, acolyte, and reader. The Rev. Dr. Paul Bradshaw, assoc. prof. of theology at Notre Dame Univ., introduces the primary sources of the texts. He outlines the nuclear structure of the ordination ritual and comments on the prayers and ceremonies proper to each order. Then, in the second part of the book, he offers English translations of the texts available.Bradshaw, Paul F. is the author of 'Ordination Rites of the Ancient Churches of East and West' with ISBN 9780756766214 and ISBN 0756766214.