Seminary prepares students studying religion for ordination as clergy, academia, or ministry.
 In most Christian denominations that retain the practice of ordination, only an already ordained (consecrated) bishop or the equivalent may ordain bishops, priests, and deacons
The following are positions that are not acquired by ordination:Becoming a monk or nun or, generally, a member of a religious order, which is open to men and women; men in religious orders may or may not be ordained

