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“Notice that it is saint with a small ‘s’.”

The only kind God recognizes in Scripture.

The procedure you reference is simply made up.

Well, Christ gave the Church the power to forgive sins and to retain them, to bind and to loose, and went so far as to ordain teachers:

1 Corinthians 12:28
"And God has appointed in the church first apostles, second prophets, third teachers; then deeds of power, then gifts of healing, forms of assistance, forms of leadership, various kinds of tongues."

Not all, but only some:

1 Corinthians 12:29
"Are all apostles? Are all prophets? Are all teachers? Do all work miracles?"

and to endow those teachers with His authority:

Luke 10:16
‘Whoever listens to you listens to me, and whoever rejects you rejects me, and whoever rejects me rejects the one who sent me.’

So these things you call "made up" flow from the mandate Christ gave to His Church. Not Biblical? Of course they're Biblical -- in this sense: they come from the reality of the Church doing what it needs to to doing order to teach, govern, and sanctify.

The Church is not a fly trapped in amber, fossilized and inert for centuries. The Church, springing from that mustard-seed of faith, becomes the largest of garden plants, where even the birds can come and nest.