text: As I'm sure you realize, it depends on the denomination. Outside of Sydney Australia, I'm unaware of any Anglican diocese pushing for lay celebrants of the Eucharist. From the Reformation Lutherans, Anglicans and some others have always taken the view that God set aside some called to ministry, and lay people could not preside. Even lay preaching was not allowed, which is one of the reasons the Episcopal church was, and is, small and Methodism with its circuit riders and open air revival sermons and Baptists with the tent preachers flourished on the frontier, and soon vastly outnumbered other denominations.