This paper proposes a constructive retrieval of the theology of priesthood through the lens of recognition. Drawing on the Jesuit theologian Michael Buckley's threefold account of priestly ministry—ministry of the word, ministry of interiority, and ministry directed toward the alleviation of human suffering—I argue that these dimensions can be reread as practices of recognitional accompaniment within the life of the Church. In dialogue with contemporary recognition theory, I suggest that presbyteral ministry is fundamentally a relational vocation that participates in the labour of recognising the vulnerable other within the people of God. Such recognition is not merely social or political but theological: it emerges through narrative encounter, vulnerability, and participation in shared life. As I have argued elsewhere, recognition within Christian communities unfolds through practices of accompaniment that disclose the dignity and vocation of the other while simultaneously transforming the recognizer. In this sense, priesthood can be understood not primarily as a status within a hierarchical structure but as a ministerial form of availability to the other—an ecclesial practice of listening to the Word, fostering interior discernment, and accompanying human suffering. Reconsidered in this way, Buckley's account of priesthood offers a generative theological framework for thinking about ordained ministry within the emerging synodal Church, where authority is exercised less as control and more as the pastoral mediation of recognition within the community of the baptized.