CCC 1576

Christian Mystery›SECTION TWO THE SEVEN SACRAMENTS OF THE CHURCH›CHAPTER THREE THE SACRAMENTS AT THE SERVICE OF COMMUNION›V. Who Can Confer This Sacrament?

sin church sacraments

Entities

Apostolic Succession Holy Orders

Topics

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Since the sacrament of Holy Orders is the sacrament of the apostolic ministry, it is for the bishops as the successors of the apostles to hand on the "gift of the Spirit," The "apostolic line." Validly ordained bishops, i.e., those who are in the line of apostolic succession, validly confer the three degrees of the sacrament of Holy Orders.

Footnotes

LG 21 # 2.
LG 20.
Cf. DS 794 and Cf. DS 802; ⇒ CIC, can. 1012; CCEO, can. 744; 747.

Ecclesiastical Documents (4)

Lumen Gentium Denzinger Schonmetzer Cic Cceo

Lumen Gentium 21, Lumen Gentium 20, Denzinger Schonmetzer 794

Cross-References (2)

CCC 1555 CCC 1557

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