Elders ordain priests and teachers by the laying on of hands. Between A.D. 400 and 421

  1 The manner which the disciples, who were called the elders of the church, ordained priests and teachers-

  2 After they had prayed unto the Father in the name of Christ, they laid their hands upon them, and said:

  3 In the name of Jesus Christ I ordain you to be a priest, (or, if he be a teacher) I ordain you to be a teacher, to preach repentance and remission of sins through Jesus Christ, by the endurance of faith on his name to the end. Amen.

  4 And after this manner did they ordain priests and teachers, according to the gifts and callings of God unto men; and they ordained them by the power of the Holy Ghost, which was in them.