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What does a priest have to do to become a priest?

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The question should be "What does a lay person have to do to become a priest?" or "What did a priest have to do to become a priest?"

Depends on the religion.

Some priesthoods are hereditary.
Some are due to reincarnation
If you start your own religion you can self declare
Others are faked from a diploma mill
In Christian churches traditionally there is instruction in a seminary, psychological tests to weed out the inapt, the criminal and the insane, a serious amount of internal questioning and some formal vowing and blessing

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