Question 40 — The Things Annexed to Holy Orders

We must now consider the things that are annexed to the sacrament of holy orders.

Under this head there are seven points of inquiry:

(1) Whether those who are ordained ought to be shaven and tonsured in the form of a crown?

• (2) Whether the tonsure is an order?
• (3) Whether by receiving the tonsure one renounces temporal goods?
• (4) Whether above the priestly order there should be an episcopal power?
• (5) Whether the episcopate is an order?
• (6) Whether in the Church there can be any power above the episcopate?
• (7) Whether the vestments of the ministers are fittingly instituted by the Church?