Editing Holy orders (section)

==Catholicism==
{{See also|Holy orders (Catholic Church)|Priesthood (Catholic Church)|Bishop (Catholic Church)}}
[[File:Holy Orders Picture.jpg|thumb|right|190px|[[Ordination]] to the Catholic priesthood in the [[Latin Church]]. Devotional card, 1925.]]

The ministerial orders of the [[Catholic Church]] include the orders of [[Bishop (Catholic Church)|bishops]], [[deacons]] and [[Presbyterium|presbyters]], which in [[Latin language|Latin]] is ''sacerdos''.<ref>Catechism 1547</ref> The ordained priesthood and common priesthood (or priesthood of all the baptized) are different in function and essence.<ref>''Lumen Gentium 10''</ref>

A distinction is made between "[[priest]]" and "[[presbyter]]". In the [[Canon law (Catholic Church)|1983 Code of Canon Law]], "The Latin words ''sacerdos'' and ''[[sacerdotium]]'' are used to refer in general to the ministerial priesthood shared by bishops and presbyters. The words ''presbyter, presbyterium and presbyteratus'' refer to priests [in the English use of the word] and presbyters".<ref>{{cite book|last1=Woesteman|first1=William |title=The Sacrament of Orders and the Clerical State|publisher=St Paul's University Press|location=Ottawa|year=2006|page=8}} see also ''De Ordinatione''</ref>

While the [[consecrated life]] is neither clerical nor lay by definition,<ref>can. 588, CIC 1983</ref> clerics can be members of institutes of consecrated or [[Secular clergy|secular]] ([[Diocese|diocesan]]) life.<ref>can. 266, CIC 1983</ref>