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Prayers read by a priest during confessionTo the presbyters preparing to serve the Holy LiturgyCanons
Canons of the Ecumenical Councils, Canon 13: The mandatory requirement of celibacy for deacons and elders is condemned.Canons of the Ecumenical Councils, Canon 16: In rejecting the custom of having no more than 7 deacons in a bishopric.Canons of the Ecumenical Councils, Canon 19: On the acceptance of the Paulians (Manichaeans) through baptism. About deaconesses.Canons of the Ecumenical Councils, Canon 2: On the condemnation of simony (ordination for bribery).Canons of the Local Councils, Canon 10: On the anathema to a presbyter who has gone into schism from his bishop.Canons of the Local Councils, Canon 10: On the prohibition of the diaconal ministry, “those who have sinned in body.”Canons of the Local Councils, Canon 11: About ordination to the presbyter no earlier than 30 years of age.Canons of the Local Councils, Canon 22: That no one can ordain a deacon before the age of 25.Canons of the Local Councils, Canon 2: The same goes for deacons.Canons of the Local Councils, Canon 4: About the anathema to those who doubt receiving communion from married elders.Canons of the Local Councils, Canon 7: About the prohibition for an elder to feast at the marriage of a bigamist.Canons of the Local Councils, Canon 9: On the prohibition of priesthood for elders who have “sinned in body.”Books of the Fathers
A conversation about the fact that there is one Lawgiver of the Old and New Testaments, also about the clothes of the priest, and about repentanceConversation on ordination to the priesthoodDeacon Ivan FeodorovCategories of becoming a priest in the teachings of St. Gregory the TheologianTo the Most Venerable Magna, Deaconess of Ancyra, a word about non-covetousnessAt his ordinationInstructions for the priest who is to serve St. LiturgyAbout deaconsReplies to Tiberius the deacon and the brethrenEpistle to Elders John and AntiochusMessage to Presbyter PalladiusThe religious and philosophical heritage of priest Pavel Florensky. Anthropological aspectOrdination as an obstacle to marriageSt. John Chrysostom in the rank of reader, in the ranks of deacon and presbyterSt. Hesychius the Presbyter of Jerusalem and his homiletical heritageTo the Priest: Extracts from Diary Notebooks (1856-1860)Tertullian, Presbyter of Carthage