Download or read book Ordination Rites of the Ancient Churches of East and West written by Paul F. Bradshaw and published by Liturgical Press. This book was released on 1990 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A study of the early texts 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 author introduces the primary sources of the texts and 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.