[Campion]

The prostration in an ordination is not homage or obeisance to the ordaining bishop. It's a gesture of humility before God as the whole congregation prays for the ordinand. You're reading something into it that is not in fact there.

Although I don't know where you get the odd idea that it's wrong to kneel before a superior. That's an egalitarian Enlightenment idea, not a biblical one.

[Catsrus]

Yes, it is a Biblical one. The apostles never allowed people to kneel before them. And, who ordains someone to be superior over another? In Christ we are all equal, and each has his/her own calling. I don’t blindly follow someone just because they claim to be superior over me. The name Adolph Hitler comes to mind.