Interstices

In Roman Catholicism, the interstices is a period of at least three months between the ordination of a man to the diaconate and his ordination to the priesthood. A bishop may shorten the length of this interval if he has an extraordinary reason for doing so. It is generally longer than three months.[1]

It has been applied to many other offices as well. When rules for the progression of a candidate through church offices were first codified in the 4th and 5th centuries, for example, some bishops established a waiting period of four years as acolyte or subdeacon and five years as a deacon.[2]

References

  1. ^ John Hardon, Modern Catholic Dictionary (Trinity Publications, 2007)
  2. ^ H. Ahaus, "Orders," in Charles George Herbermann, et al., eds, The Catholic Encyclopedia, vol. 11 (NY: Universal Knowledge Foundation, 1913), 282


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