The History of Ordination
According to The Love Church website the rites and traditions involved in the ordination of religious leaders predates the formation of the Christian religion and the first laying on of hands by Jesus Christ.
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Ancient
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The tradition of ordaining a religious leader is known to have been used by the religions of Judaism and Islam in ancient times. Ordination began in Christianity with the laying on of hands by Jesus on his apostle Simon Peter, according to The Love Church.
Training
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The Living the Orthodox Life website reports that the apostolic succession tradition in the Christian religion requires that a priest or minister be ordained by a person linked to the first ordination of Simon Peter by Jesus through an unbroken chain of ordination. Following Martin Luther's split from the Christian church, ministers began to ordain themselves in some Christian religions.
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Online
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The introduction of the Internet allowed churches, such as the Universal Church of Life, to ordain ministers over the Internet with no formal training. Some churches ordain a minister in as little as 24 hours after the online application is completed.
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