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Cheirotonia and Ordination
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 02 February 2009
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The verb ordinare and its cognates have been used for the setting apart of church officers ever since Latin began to be an ecclesiastical language. It is significant that the names of the offices were transliterated; cheirotonia, the laying-on-of-hands, was not. This no doubt may be very simply explained. Actions with the hands were used in healing, in the reconciliation of penitents, in the ceremonies in and after baptism. A distinction of terms was needed; the choice of a term points forward to the whole history of Latin Christendom.
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page 181 note 1 This began in Russia, where churches were low and had no room for icons on the walls. It came south only in the Turkish period.