The Major Orders are the senior or higher ranks, classes, or grades of the ordained ministry in the church in contradistinction from minor orders (porters, lectors, exorcists, and acolytes).主要的订单是高级或较高职级，班，或职系的祝圣部在教会里，在对比，从轻微的订单（搬运工，讲师， exorcists ， acolytes ） 。 In the Roman Catholic Church there are three major orders, episcopacy, priesthood, and the diaconate.在罗马天主教会主要有三个订单， episcopacy ，神职人员，以及diaconate 。 These are seen to be of divine origin: "Christ, whom the Father sanctified and sent into the world, has, through his apostles, made their successors, the bishops, partakers of his consecration and his mission. These in their turn have legitimately handed on to different individuals in the church various degrees of participation in this ministry. Thus the divinely established ecclesiastical ministry is exercised on different levels by those who from antiquity have been called bishops, priests and deacons" (Vatican Council II, Constitution on the Church).这些都是被认为神圣的来源： “基督，谁的父亲圣洁和发送融入世界，已透过他的使徒，取得他们的继承人，主教， partakers他consecration和他的使命。这些在其转交给有合法对不同的个人在教会内不同程度的参与，在这个部，因此，神设立的教会部，是行使在不同程度上是由那些谁从古代被称为主教，神父和执事“ （梵蒂冈会二，宪法对教会） 。 Until 1972, when it was abolished, the subdiaconate had been included among the major orders.直到1972年，当它被废除， subdiaconate已列入各主要订单。
All who are in major orders are required to be celibate.所有谁是主要的订单都必须celibate 。 To be a priest it is necessary first to be ordained deacon; to be a bishop it is necessary to have been ordained deacon and priest.是一个牧师，这是必要的，首先要祝圣执事;成为一个主教，这是必要的已被祝圣司铎和执事。
In the Eastern, Orthodox, Anglican, and Old Catholic churches there is also agreement that the diaconate, priesthood, and episcopate are essential orders of ministry within the church.在东部，东正教，圣公会，旧天主教教堂也有一致认为， diaconate ，神职人员，主教是必不可少的命令，部内的教堂。 The Eastern and Orthodox churches also have various minor orders of ministry.东部和东正教教堂，也有各种小的订单部。 Most Protestant denominations reject the idea of both major and minor orders and recognize only one basic form of ordained ministry.最新教教派拒绝的想法都主要和次要的订单，并承认只有一个基本形式的祝圣部。
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