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The Ordination and Consecration of a Bishop — the Archbishop may anoint the forehead of the new Bishop with the Oil of Chrism
Receive the anointing of this oil, and remember continually to stir up the grace of God which is given to you; for God has not given us the spirit of fear, but of power, and love, and self-control.
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A newly composed prayer for the 2019 Anglican Ordinal, restoring the ancient ceremony of anointing a bishop with chrism after nearly four centuries' absence from the English liturgical tradition.