Corporate Ministry The Corporate Ministry was a stable in the World Wrestling Federation in 1999 comprised of members from both The Corporation and the Ministry of Darkness . History . Background . Throughout early 1999 , The Undertaker and his Ministry of Darkness had been feuding with WWF owner Vince McMahon , trying to gain control of the Federation . To break Vince ' s spirits they began targeting his daughter Stephanie . Worried about his daughter , Vince shifted focus from his Corporation stable to Stephanie . With Vince occupied , his son Shane McMahon gradually took over the leadership of the Corporation . On April 12 , Shane kicked Vince , Pat Patterson and Gerald Brisco out of the Corporation . His rationale was that there was no room in the Corporation for the old and that Vince no longer had his priorities straight . Shane then slapped his father , saying that the strong , ruthless man he knew was gone . Heading into WrestleMania XV , Vince McMahon had been feuding with Stone Cold Steve Austin for an entire year . By this point , the Corporation was involved in the feud as well . The Rock lost his WWF Championship to Austin at WrestleMania XV . He got a rematch at Backlash where Shane was the Special Guest Referee but lost that match as well . Since Shane had accidentally hit him with the championship belt near the end of the match , The Rock blamed him for the loss . They had a confrontation the following night on Raw and The Rock was fired from The Corporation . At Backlash the Ministry kidnapped Stephanie . The Undertaker attempted to marry her the following night but the marriage was disrupted by Stone Cold Steve Austin . Members of The Corporation had wanted to help Stephanie but Shane held them back . Formation . On April 29 , the pilot episode of WWF SmackDown ! , The Undertaker merged his Ministry of Darkness with Shane McMahon ' s Corporation to form the Corporate Ministry . The two groups united in order to fight their common foes Steve Austin , The Rock and Vince McMahon . The members of both factions seemingly forgot their past conflicts and worked together as a massive stable . On the following episode of Raw , a new faction formed to oppose the Corporate Ministry . Former Corporation members Mankind , Ken Shamrock , Big Show and Test joined together to form the The Union . The Union members felt that they were being screwed over by the Corporation ever since Shane had taken control of it from his father . Wanting revenge on his son after Shane McMahon admitted that he was behind the abduction of his own sister Stephanie by The Undertaker , Vince McMahon soon united with the Union as they fought with the Corporate Ministry . The Corporate Ministry . As the Corporate Ministry ' s first act , Shane ordered a WWF Championship match at Over the Edge , pitting The Undertaker against Steve Austin with Shane McMahon as The Undertaker ' s referee and Vince McMahon as Austin ' s referee . That night , Shane gave The Undertaker a quick 3 - count for his third WWF Championship reign . That same night , The Rock defeated Triple H via disqualification and The Union defeated The Acolytes , Viscera and Big Bossman in an elimination match . A week later , The Acolytes defeated X - Pac and Kane to win the WWF Tag Team Championship . Meanwhile , it was revealed that The Undertaker and the Corporate Ministry served a higher power . A mysterious cloaked figure even more powerful than The Undertaker was giving orders from behind the scenes . Eventually , The Undertaker decided to serve Austin up to this greater power , who revealed his identity to Austin while dressed in a black robe and a hood that hid his face from the live audience . On June 7 , the identity of the higher power was revealed as Vince McMahon . The entire scheme had been a plot to destroy Steve Austin . After the unveiling , Linda and Stephanie McMahon announced Austin as the new CEO of the WWF . They gave Austin control over 50 % of the company , leaving Vince and Shane with 25 % each . The Undertaker has stated that he considers the Corporate Ministry stable to be the low point of his " dark " era due to the diluting of power from himself to Vince McMahon . With Austin now feuding with the McMahons , The Undertaker faced a new challenger , The Rock . After Rock beat The Undertaker and Triple H in a handicap match , The Undertaker faced The Rock at King of the Ring for the title . During the match , The Undertaker was saved by Triple H , who made a run - in to help The Undertaker seal his victory . That same night , Vince and Shane defeated Austin in a ladder match to win his 50 % share of the company and regain full control of the WWF . The following week , The Acolytes lost their Tag Team Championship to the Hardy Boyz and The Undertaker lost his WWF Championship to Steve Austin . All three men got rematches at Fully Loaded . That night , Austin retained the WWF title in a First Blood Match by hitting The Undertaker with a television camera after an assist from X - Pac . According to the stipulations of the match , Austin ' s victory meant that Vince McMahon could no longer appear on WWF TV . If Austin had lost , he would have been unable to wrestle for the WWF title ever again . Meanwhile , The Acolytes defeated the Hardy Boyz and their manager Michael Hayes to regain the Tag Team Championship and Triple H defeated The Rock in a leather strap match to become the number one contender for the WWF Title . Two weeks later , the Acolytes would lose the Tag Team Championship to X - Pac and Kane . Dissolution . By the end of July , The Undertaker ' s relationship with the McMahon ' s had dissolved and The Corporate Ministry was substantially disbanded . The Undertaker went on to form a new tag - team with Big Show ( The Unholy Alliance ) . Mideon and Viscera were included as his enforcers on occasion but at no point was the alliance referred as The Corporate Ministry . The duo captured the Tag Team Titles at SummerSlam from X - Pac and Kane . A week later , they lost the belts to the Rock ' n ' Sock Connection ( Mankind and The Rock ) . The following week , they regained the belts in a Buried Alive match following interference from Triple H . Shortly afterwards , The Undertaker suffered a groin injury and left to rehabilitate . To explain his absence , The Undertaker was indefinitely suspended by Vince McMahon after refusing to compete in a Tag Team title defense . The match also became a Dark Side Rules match , meaning that any of The Undertaker ' s followers could be involved . As a result , Mideon and Viscera teamed with Big Show , but they lost the titles to The Rock ' n ' Sock Connection following interference from Kane . Also , a week after the Dark Side Rules match , Undertaker was supposed to face Triple H in a casket match as part of the Gauntlet that McMahon laid out for Triple H , so Mideon and Viscera took his place ( with Shane making Triple H attempt to put both into a casket , which he was unsuccessful at doing ) The Undertaker was also to be in the Six - Pack Challenge WWF Championship match at Unforgiven and was replaced by The British Bulldog . By the time he returned at Judgment Day 2000 , the Ministry was a distant memory having been completely shelved . Members . Leaders Other Members