Become An Ordained Minsterhttp://HowToBecomeAnOrdainedMinister.com - Ordination, in the religious context, means to be appointed. Yes, that is simply what it means, to be appointed to serve as a religious leader. And that appointment, in legal-sorta terms, means that a group of people, while exercising their freedom from established religion as guaranteed by the First Amendment to the Constitution of the United States, may appoint their own leaders.