The sacrament of Holy Orders enables the Church to carry out Christ's mission through ordained ministers. There are three degrees of ordination - bishops, who are regarded as transmitters of the apostolic line; priests, who are co-workers of bishops; and deacons, who serve at a lower level of the hierarchy. The essential rite for all three degrees is the bishop's imposition of hands and a specific consecratory prayer asking God for the gifts proper to the ministry.

1. Sacrament of Holy Orders Ervyn John Ampaya Fredrick Rimando

2. SACRAMENT OF THE HOLY ORDERS ENABLES THE CHURCH TO CARRY OUT THROUGH HISTORY THE MISSION AND MINISTRY WHICH CHRIST ENTRUSTED TO THE APOSTLES.

3. TWO PARTICIPATIONS IN THE ONE PRIESTHOOD OF CHRIST COMMON PRIESTHOOD THE WHOLE COMMUNITY OF BELIEVERS THROUGH PARTICIPATION EACH ACCORDING TO HIS OWN VOCATION THROUGH BAPTISM AND CONFIRMATION, THE FAITHFUL ARE CONSECRATED TO BE A HOLY PRIESTHOOD

4. MINISTERIAL PRIESTHOOD ALSO KNOWN AS HIERARCHICAL PRIESTHOOD AT THE SERVICE OF THE COMMON PRIESTHOOD MEANS BY WHICH CHRIST UNCEASINGLY BUILDS UP AND LEADS HIS CHURCH TRANSMITTED THROUGH THE SACRAMENT OF THE HOLY ORDERS

5. THREE DEGREES EPISCOPAL ORDINATION FULLNESS OF THE SACRAMENT OF HOLY ORDERS IN THE TRADITION OF THE CHURCH, BISHOPS ARE REGARDED AS TRANSMITTERS OF THE APOSTOLIC LINE KNOWN AS THE HIGH PRIESTHOOD

6. BY VIRTUE OF THE HOLY SPIRIT GIVEN TO THEM, THEY ARE CONSIDERED AS THE AUTHENTIC TEACHERS OF THE FAITH AND HAVE BEEN MADE PONTIFFS AND PASTORS

7. ORDINATION OF PRIESTS CO-WORKERS OF THE BISHOPS THE FUNCTION OF THE BISHOP’S MINISTRY WAS HANDED OVER IN A SUBORDINATE DEGREE TO PRIESTS

8. SO THAT THEY MIGHT BE APPOINTED IN THE ORDER OF PRIESTHOOD AND BE CO-WORKERS OF THE EPISCOPAL ORDER FOR THE FULFILLMENT OF THE APOSTOLIC MISSION ENTRUSTED BY CHRIST.

9. ORDINATION OF DEACONS IN ORDER TO SERVE AT THE LOWER LEVEL OF THE HIERARCHY ASSIST THE BISHOPS AND PRIESTS IN THE FOLLOWING TASKS: IN THE CELEBRATION OF THE DIVINE MYSTERIES, ABOVE ALL IN THE EUCHARIST, IN THE DISTRIBUTION OF COMMUNION

10. ASSISTING AT AND BLESSING MARRIAGES PROCLAMATION OF THE GOSPEL AND PREACHING PRESIDING OVER FUNERALS DEDICATING THEMSELVES TO VARIOUS MINISTRIES OF CHARITY

11. THE ESSENTIAL RITE FOR OF THE SACRAMENT OF THE HOLY ORDERS FOR THE THREE DEGREES CONSIST IN THE BISHOP’S IMPOSITION OF THE HANDS ON THE ORDINAND AND IN THE BISHOPS SPECIFIC CONSECRATORY PRAYER ASKING GOD FOR THE OUTPOURING OF THE HOLY SPIRIT AND HIS GIFTS PROPER FOR THE MINISTRY OF THE CANDIDATE BEING ORDAINED.

12. WHO CAN CONFER THIS SACRAMENT? BISHOPS, WHO ARE THE SUCCESSORS OF THE APOSTLES WHOM CHRIST CHOSE TO SHARE IN HIS MISSION AND AUTHORITY

13. WHO CAN RECEIVE THIS SACRAMENT? ONLY A BAPTIZED MAN (VIR) VALIDLY RECEIVES SACRED ORDINATION

14. EFFECTS OF THE SACRAMENT INDELIBLE CHARACTER THIS SACRAMENT CONFIGURES THE RECIPIENT TO CHRIST BY A SPECIAL GRACE OF THE HOLY SPIRIT, SO THAT HE MAY SERVE AS CHRIST’S INTRUMENT FOR HIS CHURCH

15. GRACE OF THE HOLY SPIRIT THE GRACE OF THE HOLY SPIRIT PROPER TO THIS SACRAMENT IS CONFIGURATION TO CHRIST AS PRIEST, TEACHER AND PASTOR OF WHOM THE ORDAINED IS MADE A MINISTER.