Prior (or prioress) is an ecclesiastical title for a superior in some religious orders. The word is derived from the Latin for "earlier" or "first". Its... 8 KB (1,119 words) - 17:35, 19 February 2024 |
Look up prior in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. The term prior may refer to: Prior (ecclesiastical), the head of a priory (monastery) Prior convictions... 813 bytes (144 words) - 13:21, 16 March 2023 |
Metropolitan Gerasimos of San Francisco (born Gerasimos Michaleas; August 2, 1945) is a Greek Eastern Orthodox prelate who became the Metropolitan of San... 8 KB (596 words) - 14:05, 24 November 2023 |
Confession), Confirmation (priests may administer this sacrament with prior ecclesiastical approval), and Anointing of the Sick. Only bishops can administer... 73 KB (8,395 words) - 22:58, 25 March 2024 |
An ecclesiastical province is one of the basic forms of jurisdiction in Christian churches, including those of both Western Christianity and Eastern Christianity... 30 KB (2,670 words) - 05:02, 23 January 2024 |
Ecclesiastical Latin, also called Church Latin or Liturgical Latin, is a form of Latin developed to discuss Christian thought in Late antiquity and used... 27 KB (2,762 words) - 15:07, 14 April 2024 |
A rector is, in an ecclesiastical sense, a cleric who functions as an administrative leader in some Christian denominations. In contrast, a vicar is also... 12 KB (1,771 words) - 14:04, 29 November 2023 |
The Ecclesiastical History of the English People (Latin: Historia ecclesiastica gentis Anglorum), written by Bede in about AD 731, is a history of the... 49 KB (6,474 words) - 12:28, 8 April 2024 |
An ecclesiastical decoration is an order or a decoration conferred by a head of a church. Jerusalem Pilgrim's Cross, established in 1901, conferred in... 12 KB (566 words) - 20:14, 24 January 2024 |
Ecclesiastical titles are the formal styles of address used for members of the clergy. Pope: Pope (Regnal Name); His Holiness; Your Holiness; Holy Father... 24 KB (2,852 words) - 16:35, 22 February 2024 |
Religious art (redirect from Ecclesiastical Art) number of artworks that are about or influenced by Daoism and Buddhism. Prior to the Han dynasty, the Chinese art hierarchy considered music as the highest... 38 KB (4,478 words) - 04:22, 9 February 2024 |
Archives Ecclesiastical News: Appointments The Times(London, England), Tuesday, Sep 25, 1956; pg. 12; Issue 53645 Resignation Ecclesiastical News. The... 2 KB (189 words) - 07:27, 20 February 2023 |
Chancellor is an ecclesiastical title used by several quite distinct officials of some Christian churches. In some churches, the Chancellor of a diocese... 3 KB (379 words) - 01:53, 25 July 2022 |
Visitor (redirect from Visitor (ecclesiastical)) English and Welsh law and history, is an overseer of an autonomous ecclesiastical or eleemosynary institution, often a charitable institution set up for... 10 KB (1,119 words) - 17:00, 17 March 2024 |
Clergy (redirect from Ecclesiastical Person) from the ecclesiastical Latin Clericus, for those belonging to the priestly class. In turn, the source of the Latin word is from the Ecclesiastical Greek... 67 KB (7,957 words) - 11:16, 16 April 2024 |
Annuario Pontificio (redirect from Ecclesiastical statistics) first John XXIII as antipopes. Many churches try to obtain accurate ecclesiastical statistics by actively counting their congregants. The Annuario Pontificio... 8 KB (902 words) - 15:58, 10 March 2024 |
Censure (Catholic canon law) (redirect from Ecclesiastical Censures) activities, and involvement in ecclesiastical functions. Censures in the Catholic Church can be traced back to ancient ecclesiastical practices and have evolved... 36 KB (5,591 words) - 06:19, 16 April 2024 |
Full communion (redirect from Ecclesiastical communion) (katholikos), meaning "universal". The term particular church denotes an ecclesiastical community headed by a bishop or equivalent, and this can include both... 37 KB (3,974 words) - 23:04, 11 January 2024 |
Ecclesiastical prisons were penal institutions maintained by the Catholic Church. At various times, they were used for the incarceration both of clergy... 85 KB (11,467 words) - 11:05, 16 September 2023 |
Principality (redirect from Ecclesiastical principality) — by a prince of the church, styled more precisely according to his ecclesiastical rank, such as prince-bishop, prince-abbot or, especially as a form of... 11 KB (1,289 words) - 01:18, 24 March 2024 |
Ecclesiastical history of the Catholic Church refers to the history of the Catholic Church as an institution, written from a particular perspective. There... 81 KB (11,405 words) - 14:45, 11 April 2024 |
In ecclesiastical terminology, an Auditor (from a Latin word meaning "hearer") is a person given authority to hear cases in an ecclesiastical court. In... 3 KB (405 words) - 03:20, 26 December 2023 |
Liturgical year (redirect from Ecclesiastical year) (Russians, in particular) follow the Julian Calendar in calculating their ecclesiastical feasts, but many (including the Ecumenical Patriarchate and the Church... 82 KB (10,106 words) - 07:38, 8 April 2024 |
Prior Park is a Neo-Palladian house that was designed by John Wood, the Elder, and built in the 1730s and 1740s for Ralph Allen on a hill overlooking... 27 KB (2,953 words) - 07:42, 21 April 2022 |
Metropolitan bishop (category Eastern Christian ecclesiastical offices) metropolitan archbishop of the ecclesiastical province. Metropolitan (arch)bishops preside over synods of the bishops of their ecclesiastical province, and canon... 19 KB (2,221 words) - 07:11, 11 April 2024 |
Background and causes of the Malayan Emergency (redirect from Circumstances prior to the malayan emergency) Criticism of the Quran Succession to Muhammad Islamic golden age Kharijites Ecclesiastical history of the Catholic Church Second Vatican Council Hermeneutics of... 42 KB (6,295 words) - 17:40, 26 December 2023 |
Pension (redirect from Ecclesiastical Pension) exchange, the funds in such plans may not be withdrawn by the investor prior to reaching a certain age—typically the year the employee reaches 59.5 years... 81 KB (10,471 words) - 14:26, 27 April 2024 |