Editing Ordination (section)

====Notes====
[[File:Kurtley Knight ordination to the Anglican Priesthood 01.jpg|thumb|In an outdoor Anglican ordination service, a deacon being ordained to the priesthood prostrates himself before the seated bishop.]]
* There have long existed orders of clergy below that of deacon.  In the Eastern Orthodox and [[Oriental Orthodox]] churches (and, until 1970, in the Catholic Church), a person has to be [[tonsure]]d a cleric and be ordained to sundry [[minor order]]s prior to being ordained a deacon.  Although a person may be said to be ordained to these orders, such ordinations are not reckoned as part of the sacrament of Holy Orders; in the Eastern Orthodox, the term ''[[Cheirothesia]]'' ("imposition of hands")<ref name=DS/> is used for such ordinations in contrast to ''Cheirotonia'' ("laying on of hands") for ordinations of deacons, presbyters, and bishops.
* The following are positions that are not acquired by ordination:
** Becoming a [[monk]] or [[nun]] or, generally, a member of a [[religious order#Christian tradition|religious order]], which is open to men and women; men in religious orders may or may not be ordained. Anglican nuns may, like their male counterparts, be ordained as well. 
** Offices and titles such as [[pope]], [[patriarch]], [[archbishop]], [[archpriest]], [[archimandrite]], [[archdeacon]], etc., which are given to ordained persons for sundry reasons, e.g., to rank them or honor them.
** [[Cardinal (Catholicism)|Cardinal]]s are simply a large collegiate body who are electors of and the senior-most counselors to the Pope, and are not a fourth order beyond bishop. At presently nearly all cardinals are bishops, although [[Cardinal (Catholicism)#Cardinals who are not bishops|several are priests]], having been granted a dispensation from being ordained a bishop by the Pope (most of these were elevated by the Pope for services to the Church, and are over 80, thus not having the right to elect a pope or have active voting memberships in Vatican departments). As recently as 1899 there was a [[lay cardinal|cardinal who was a deacon]] when he died, having been a cardinal for 41 years ([[Teodolfo Mertel]]). There have even been noble lay men, or men who only possessed minor orders (now called ministries, and carried out by seminarians and laypeople) who at one time were made cardinals. Cardinals are considered princes in diplomatic protocol and by the Church, and even if they are not ordained bishops and cannot perform episcopal functions such as ordination, they have both real and ceremonial precedence over all non-cardinal patriarchs, archbishops, and bishops. Some have discussed the possibility in Catholicism of having women serve as cardinals or, more realistically in the short-term, as sub-deacons, since they cannot be ordained{{Citation needed|date=October 2015}}.
*{{anchor|DDO}}In the [[Church of England]], the priest of the diocese who oversees the process of discernment, selection and training of ordinands is usually called the "Diocesan Director of Ordinands", commonly shortened to "DDO". He or she may have a team of assistants, who may be called Assistant DDOs or Vocations Advisers.

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