Wood Plaque - Jesus Christ - Eternal High Priest by J. Cole

Although there are tens of thousands of priests in the Catholic Church, there is, in the most proper sense of the word, only one Priest, and that Priest is Jesus Christ.  All other priests, however, many thousands there may be, are sharers in that one priesthood of Christ.  They truly share in the priesthood of Christ, but only Christ himself has the fullness of the priesthood.  And this is because only Christ is, himself, the Victim and the Priest who offers the Victim.  As St.