Sacrae ordinationis minister ordinarius est Episcopus consecratus; extraordinarius, qui, licet charactere episcopali careat, a iure vel a Sede Apostolica per peculiare indultum potestatem acceperit aliquos ordines conferendi.
The ordinary minister of sacred ordination is every (validly) consecratedbishop, even though he be a schismatic or heretic.
This was defined in the Decree for the Armenians and again by the Council of Trent.1 However, it must be added that although every validly consecrated bishop may ordain validly, yet he must make use of the proper form in the act of ordination, and have the intention of conferring the power attached to the Sacrament; or rather, let us say, the ordinans must not positively exclude the intention of the Church. From this point of view the Anglican Orders were declared invalid by Leo XIII, in his "Apostolicae curae," of Sept. 13, 1896.2
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