 This is an alternative approach to the sequential ordination of other historic churches (including the Anglican, Orthodox, and Roman Catholic churches) in which candidates must be ordained in the strict sequence of deacon, then priest, then bishop.A Church of Sweden priest will be ordained directly to that office, without any previous ordination as a deacon.In the history of Holy Orders direct ordination seems to have been commonplace in the Church before the fourth century, whilst the two systems (direct ordination and sequential ordination) seem to have co-existed in different places, until the eleventh century, when sequential ordination became universally normal and requisite, under Pope Gregory VII (1073-1085).