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Knowledge of normative texts according to Ecclesiastical Office and Ordination in the Roman Catholic Church and beyond; ability for critical analysis of doctrinal and liturgical sources.

Relevant parts of Lumen Gentium, Sacrum Diaconatus Ordinem, CIC et al., texts and rites of the ordination liturgies.

Lecture; optional queries and discussion.

Oral (alternatively written) examination. Subjects: the contents of the oral presentation in the lecture plus the study of special literature which will be announced at the beginning of the semester

Eva-Maria Faber: Einführung in die katholische Sakramentenlehre. 3. Auflage Darmstadt 2011. S. 150–175.

Thomas Schumacher: Bischof – Presbyter – Diakon. Geschichte und Theologie des Amtes im Überblick. München 2010.

Dogmatic Constitution  Lumen Gentium des II. Vatikanischen Konzils.

positive completion of compulsory module 1 (first part of studies).