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Prayer-Book (Euchologion)

St Sarapion of Thmuis, tr. Wordsworth, 1899

Chapter 14

14. Laying on of hands of the making of a Bishop.

Thou who didst send the Lord Jesus for the gain of all the world (οἰκουμένης), thou who didst through him choose the apostles, thou who generation by generation dost ordain holy Bishops, O God of truth, make this Bishop also a living Bishop, holy of the succession of the holy apostles, and give to him grace and divine Spirit, that thou didst freely give to all thy own (γνησίοις) servants and prophets and patriarchs: make him to be worthy to shepherd thy flock and let him still continue unblameably and inoffensively in the Bishopric through thy only-begotten Jesus Christ, through whom to thee (is) the glory and the strength in holy Spirit both now and to all the ages of the ages. Amen.