Tentative - July 10, 2021

God willing and the people consenting, the Right Reverend Matthew A. Gunter, Eighth Bishop of Fond du Lac, shall ordain in Christ’s One Holy Catholic and Apostolic Church, Saturday, the tenth of July in the year of our Lord two thousand twenty one at eleven o’clock in the morning.

Ordination Liturgy

​From the Book of Common Prayer

• Preface to the Ordination Rites
• The Ordination of a Deacon
  ​Concerning the Service
• The Ordination of a Priest
  Concerning the Service​
• The Litany for Ordinations

From the Dictionary of the Episcopal Church

"A sacramental rite of the church by which God gives authority and the grace of the Holy Spirit through prayer and the laying on of hands by bishops to those being made bishops, priests, and deacons (BCP, pp. 860-861). The three distinct orders of bishops, priests, and deacons have been characteristic of Christ's holy catholic church."

Read more at episcopalchurch.org.