CCC 1558

Christian MysterySECTION TWO THE SEVEN SACRAMENTS OF THE CHURCHCHAPTER THREE THE SACRAMENTS AT THE SERVICE OF COMMUNIONIII. The Three Degrees of the Sacrament of Holy Orders
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"Episcopal consecration confers, together with the office of sanctifying, also the offices of teaching and ruling.... In fact ... by the imposition of hands and through the words of the consecration, the grace of the Holy Spirit is given, and a sacred character is impressed in such wise that bishops, in an eminent and visible manner, take the place of Christ himself, teacher, shepherd, and priest, and act as his representative (in Eius persona agant)." "By virtue, therefore, of the Holy Spirit who has been given to them, bishops have been constituted true and authentic teachers of the faith and have been made pontiffs and pastors."

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