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...
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Look up prior in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. The term prior may refer to: Prior (ecclesiastical), the head of a priory (monastery) Prior convictions...
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Confession), Confirmation (priests may administer this sacrament with prior ecclesiastical approval), and Anointing of the Sick. Only bishops can administer...
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Metropolitan Gerasimos of San Francisco (born Gerasimos Michaleas; August 2, 1945) is a Greek Eastern Orthodox prelate who became the Metropolitan of San...
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Ecclesiastical Latin, also called Church Latin or Liturgical Latin, is a form of Latin developed to discuss Christian thought in Late antiquity and used...
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An ecclesiastical province is one of the basic forms of jurisdiction in Christian churches, including those of both Western Christianity and Eastern Christianity...
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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...
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1950s, the church body was transformed into an umbrella, after its prior ecclesiastical provinces had assumed independence in the late 1940s. Following the...
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Ecclesiastical heraldry refers to the use of heraldry within Christianity for dioceses, organisations and Christian clergy. Initially used to mark documents...
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The Ecclesiastical History of the English People (Latin: Historia ecclesiastica gentis Anglorum), written by Bede in about AD 731, is a history of the...
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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...
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Ecclesiastical titles are the formal styles of address used for members of the clergy. Pope: Pope (Regnal Name); His Holiness; Your Holiness; Holy Father...
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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...
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Archives Ecclesiastical News: Appointments The Times(London, England), Tuesday, Sep 25, 1956; pg. 12; Issue 53645 Resignation Ecclesiastical News. The...
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Chancellor is an ecclesiastical title used by several quite distinct officials of some Christian churches. In some churches, the Chancellor of a diocese...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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Liturgical year (redirect from Ecclesiastical year)
The liturgical year, also called the church year, Christian year, ecclesiastical calendar, or kalendar, consists of the cycle of liturgical days and seasons...
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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...
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In ecclesiastical terminology, an Auditor (from a Latin word meaning "hearer") is a person given authority to hear cases in an ecclesiastical court. In...
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Vocation (redirect from Ecclesiastical and Religious Vocation)
which one is duly called, which place one neither seeks nor declines." Prior to beginning service, a person is presented to church membership for a sustaining...
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Ecclesiastical prisons were penal institutions maintained by the Catholic Church. At various times, they were used for the incarceration both of clergy...
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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...
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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...
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The cathedral in 1982, prior to its restoration in the 1990s...
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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...
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the Council of Princes by virtue of possessing territory or holding ecclesiastical position. The assent of both bodies was required for important decisions...
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nuncio (papal ambassador) is primarily a diplomatic rank and not of an ecclesiastical nature. Most nuncios are ordained as titular archbishops, and would...
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