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Message from Olivia Robertson
Co-Founder, FOI
October 2001
Priesthood Ordination Year-and-a-Day Policy
As part of the continuing decentralization of the Fellowship, Olivia Robertson has handed over the registration of new Priests and Priestesses to the Archpriesthood Union. The AU will now keep individual registration lists of all new Priesthood members. The total number registered will be reported to Olivia on a quarterly basis by the members of the AU.*
For those who wish ordination within the Fellowship of Isis, a training course is first required [either in person or through correspondence]. Application is made to a member of the F.O.I. Priesthood within an active center. The recommended training period is 9 months to 2 years. Spiritual Vocation on the part of the Candidate is essential. At the end of the training period, the Rite of Ordination is performed, either in person or through attunement, by a Fellowship Priestess or Priest. This completes the first phase and confers direct Spiritual Ordination.
After the Ordination Rite, the Fellowship will now require a formal year and a day to pass before registration of the new Priest/ess is allowed. This procedure will validate their ministry in practical life through conscious participation in their Vocation.
After the required year and a day, if s/he wishes formal registration in the Fellowship, the new Priest/ess will contact the person who ordained them. The ordaining Priest/ess will then issue a Fellowship of Isis Ordination Certificate, and then provide the FOI Central Register or an AU member with the appropriate information in order to register them. (name, address, date ordained, etc.) The AU member will record this information, and then provide the information to the Central Register and notify the member when this is complete.*
Important note: Only after formal registration is the ordination valid within the Fellowship of Isis. Registration is required before a Priest or Priestess can train and ordain other candidates into the Fellowship of Isis Priesthood.
This procedural delay was used many years ago by Olivia and Lawrence Durdin-Robertson, and is now being required for all newly ordained Fellowship Priest/esses.
This decentralized ordination policy is effective October 18, 2001. Please pass this letter on in full to all Priests and Priestesses that you have ordained so they may be properly informed. Thank you.
Olivia Robertson, AU
Co-Founder FOI
18th of October 2001
N.B added by OR: There are no exceptions being made to this policy.
(Ed. note: Our thanks to the Rt. Rev. Kadea Metara for forwarding this information from Olivia.)
*Additional note: Registrations are now archived with the individual member of the AU and not sent to a Central Register or the Foundation Center. New members of the Priesthood are required to be registered with an AU member in order to be recognized within the FOI.
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