Council of Trent
Council of Trent: Session XXIII, On The Sacrament Of Order., Canon III
Waterworth (1848), Hanover transcription; separate papal documents excluded
On The Sacrament Of Order., Canon III
ON THE SACRAMENT OF ORDER.
CANON III.--If any one saith, that order, or sacred ordination, is not truly and properly a sacrament instituted by Christ the Lord; or, that it is a kind of human figment devised by men unskilled in ecclesiastical matters; or, that it is only a kind of rite for choosing ministers of the word of God and of the sacraments; let him be anathema.
Translation: J. Waterworth, The Canons and Decrees of the Council of Trent (1848), Hanover Historical Texts Project transcription (1995).
Source: Council of Trent: Session XXIII (Hanover Historical Texts Project)