Rite of Incorporation

Rite of Incorporation

Basileia performs Rites of Incorporation for Adult Communicant Members completing the Catechumenate and for Governing Members completing the Novitiate. Baptism and Chrismation are dimensions of the Rite of Incorporation for those completing the Catechumenate who have not yet been baptized. The specific form of the Rite of Incorporation for those completing the Novitiate is ether Commissioning for lay Governing Members, Ordination for Presbyters and Deacons or Consecration for Abbots assuming episcopal authority. Other types of Rites of Incorporation are weddings and infant baptisms (for the sphere of the family) and inaugurations (for the sphere of the state).

Also see Baptism, Catechumenate, Infant Baptism and Novitiate.