Both Slavic and Greek texts point to Patriarch [[John IV of Constantinople]], also known as '''John the Faster''', as the compiler of the service order for Confession. The usual posture today is for both the priest and penitent to stand next to one another, sometimes facing the altar, sometimes at an analogion placed elsewhere in the church for hearing confessions. However, there are at least two 14th century sources which direct the priest or both the priest and penitent to sit.