ORDERS, the petty, or minor, are four; those of door-keeper, exorcist, reader, and acolyte. Persons in petty orders may marry without any dispensation. In effect, the petty orders are looked on as little other than formalities, and as degrees necessary to arrive at the higher orders. The Greeks disavow these petty orders, and pass immediately to the subdeaconate; and the reformed churches to the deaconate. Their rise Fleury dates in the time of the Emperor Justinian. There is no call nor benefit required for the four petty orders; and even a bastard may enjoy them without any dispensation, nor does a second marriage disqualify.