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Therefore, Father, make N. a bishop in your Church. Pour out upon him the power of your princely Spirit, whom you  bestowed upon your beloved Son Jesus Christ, with whom he  endowed the apostles, and by whom your Church is built up in  every place, to the glory and unceasing praise of your Name.

To you, O Father, all hearts are open; fill, we pray, the heart of this your servant whom you have chosen to be a bishop in  your Church, with such love of you and of all the people, that  he may feed and tend the flock of Christ, and exercise  without reproach the high priesthood to which you have  called him, serving before you day and night in the ministry  of reconciliation, declaring pardon in your Name, offering the  holy gifts, and wisely overseeing the life and work of the  Church. In all things may he present before you the acceptable offering of a pure, and gentle, and holy life; through Jesus  Christ your Son, to whom, with you and the Holy Spirit, be  honor and power and glory in the Church, now and for ever.

Amen.

Receive the Holy Scriptures. Feed the flock of Christ committed to your charge, guard and defend them in his  truth, and be a faithful steward of his holy Word and  Sacraments.