Kształtowanie się obrzędów święceń biskupa od „Tradycji Apostolskiej” do „Pontyfikału rzymsko-germańskiego” (zarys historyczno-liturgiczny)

Abstract

The article presents the history of formation of the ceremony of the ordination of a bishop during the period of time from III to X century. The Apostolic Tradition shows the ceremony of bishop sacramental orders in a light and relatively simple stiucture, in which is clearly isolated that, what belongs to its main point (prayer of ordination, laying on of hands). In the later Middle Ages liturgical codes are appearing secondary celebration elements (for example: solemnly of elect’s head). Their excessive development, in a consequence, leads to abscurity of that, what constituted a fundamental core in a structure of the ordination of a bishop.