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Anordinance orecclesiastical ordinance is a type of law, legal instrument, or by-law in thecanon law of theCatholic Church, theAnglican Communion, and inCalvinism.
Each Christian denomination that has a hierarchy tends to need rules and regulations that define the rights, privileges, powers, and responsibilities of each individual cleric (such as deacon, priest or pastor, bishop, cardinal, abbot, abbess, or religious like nuns and monks) and corporate bodies (vestry, canons, chapter house, diocese,College of Cardinals, etc.). A religious organization with a flat organizational structure or no hierarchy tends not to have ecclesiastical ordinances.
In theAnglican Communion, particularly the AmericanEpiscopal Church, ecclesiastical ordinances are thebylaws of aChristianreligious organization, especially that of adiocese orprovince of achurch.[citation needed]
In thecanon law of the Catholic Church, ecclesiastical ordinances are particular laws, issued in order to fulfil universal law on a local or regional level.[1][2]
Ecclesiastical Ordinances is the title of the foundation rules, orconstitution, of the Reformed Church inGeneva, written byJohn Calvin in 1541.[3][4] They were revised in 1561.[5]
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