Part I Ordination

2 Ordination to priesthood in 24th year of age.

It shall be lawful for the Archbishop of Canterbury to grant a Faculty to a person over the age of twenty-three years to be admitted a Priest in any Diocese in either Province and to preach and administer the Sacraments although such person has not attained the full age of twenty-four years, and accordingly in section one of the M1Clergy Ordination Act 1804, after the words “four and twenty years compleat” there shall be inserted the words “ unless being over the age of twenty-three years he hath a Faculty from the Archbishop of Canterbury ”.