The orders are bishop, priest, deacon, subdeacon, lector, and singer. The sacramentary assumes the presence of a choir, deacon and subdeacon. The major orders are&colon; subdeacon, deacon, priest, and bishop. Most often the specific parts assigned to deacon and subdeacon are performed by priests. The server(s) or deacon and subdeacon responded to this also with "Amen". The clerical street-wear of a subdeacon is the inner-cassock (podryasnik) and outer cassock (ryasa). On December 21 Merton was ordained as a subdeacon. In 1969 Scola was denied permission to be ordained subdeacon a year early. The usual street-wear of the subdeacon is the cassock. These clerical ranks are subdeacon, reader and altar server (also known as taper-bearer). Bouchard began his career as a cantor and subdeacon in the church of Laon. Even after that, ordination of a subdeacon does not include the laying on of hands. This order is higher than the Doorkeeper (now largely obsolete) and lower than the subdeacon. This Pope was the former subdeacon Silverius, the son of Pope Hormisdas. An auditor of the Sacra Rota served as subdeacon.