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(ecclesiastical) a celibate priest or monk of the Armenian Apostolic Church, a hieromonk
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Of or relating to the Congregation of Sisters of St. Agnes.
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(Eastern Orthodoxy, countable) Used in connection with His or Your to address to the Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople and the metropolitan bishop of Thessaloniki.
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(Celtic paganism) A chief druid.
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(Eastern Orthodoxy, historical, derogatory) One who administers the Eucharist with unleavened bread, in particular a member of the Latin Church or Roman Catholic Church.
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A monk or nun belonging to the order founded by Saint Benedict of Nursia.
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(historical) In Russia, the regular or monastic clergy, as distinct from the secular or parochial.
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A Benedictine monk, one of the Order of Saint Benedict.
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A member of the Order of the Most Holy Savior, an Augustinian monastic order of nuns, religious sisters and monks founded by Saint Bridget of Sweden a.k.a. Saint Birgitta in 1344, and approved by Pope Urban V in 1370.
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Abbreviation of Church of England. [The English branch of the Christian Church; (since the 16th century) specifically the established Protestant church in England which is the mother church of the Anglican Communion.]
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A member of a Christian contemplative order of monks founded by Bruno of Cologne (St Bruno) in 1084.
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Relating to a reformed Benedictine monastic order founded at Cluny in eastern France.
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Synonym of Society of Jesus (“Jesuit order”)
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A member of one of the two divisions of the Franciscans, following a mitigated rule, the other being the Observants.
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Pertaining to the papal curia.
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(religion, historical) Any of the early Christian hermits, ascetics and monks who lived mainly in the Scetes desert of Egypt, beginning around the third century AD, and were a major influence on the development of Christianity.
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(Greek Orthodox Christianity) The part of the service spoken in an audible tone.
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The Orthodox archbishop of Constantinople who is generally recognised as the leader of the Eastern Orthodox Church
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An administrative sub-provincial unit in post-Ottoman independent Greece.
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(Catholicism) Of or related to the Franciscans.
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Adherents to the Fraticelli heresy, condemned as heretical by Pope Bonaface VIII in 1296.
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Of or pertaining to Freemasonry.
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A compellation for a friar.
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house or dwelling where friars or members of certain religious communities live
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A god-king; a sovereign worshiped as a god.
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A member of the International Organisation of Good Templars, a temperance organisation.
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Of or relating to a person named Gregory, especially any of the popes of that name.
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(Christianity) The head of a monastery of the Eastern Orthodox Church or Eastern Catholic Churches.
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Alternative form of hegumen (“head of a monastery”) [(Christianity) The head of a monastery of the Eastern Orthodox Church or Eastern Catholic Churches.]
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A monk of the Eastern Church who is also a priest.
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(often capitalised) God.
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(Christianity) Jesus Christ.
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A honorific style for a metropolitan in Oriental Orthodox churches
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The title of the Pope of the Catholic Church.
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In Orthodox Churches, the governing body composed of the metropolitan bishops and presided by the patriarch.
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(Mormonism) To teach as part of a home teaching assignment.
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A division of the psalter, used by Eastern Orthodox Christians and Eastern Catholics who follow the Byzantine Rite.
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One who funds the building or reconstruction of an Eastern Orthodox church or monastery.
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(historical) A friar who had a license to beg within certain bounds.
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One of a Roman Catholic order of nuns of the nineteenth century, devoting themselves to education and the care of destitute orphans.
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(Roman Catholicism) A member of the Society of Mary, a congregation of Roman Catholic brothers and priests who look to the Virgin Mary as a model of faith and spirituality.
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A member of any of several Roman Catholic organizations named after the Virgin Mary
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Of or pertaining to Freemasons or to their craft or mysteries.
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Any religious order whose members depend on begging or charity.
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A member of the Order of the Blessed Virgin Mary of Mercy.
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(Orthodox Christianity) Pertaining to the see or province of a metropolitan.
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The state or business of a mormaer.
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(Christianity, liturgical, law) placeholder for a particular name to be specified
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(chiefly theater) A nuntius.
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A member of a Franciscan order that strictly observes the rules of St. Francis.
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Of or pertaining to the Observant branch of Franciscan friars
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One of an order of Benedictine monks founded in 1313, the original house at Monte Oliveto, near Siena.
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A member of a Roman Catholic oratory
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(Christianity) The divine office or service at dawn of the Orthodox Christian Church.
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A parish priest in the Greek Orthodox Church.
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One of the major historical states of Italy before the peninsula was unified in 1861. It comprised those territories over which the Pope was the ruler in a civil as well as a spiritual sense.
adj
(now Scotland, Ireland, chiefly derogatory) Roman Catholic.
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(historical, Christianity) In the early Eastern Church, a lay assistant to the clergy for tending the sick.
adj
Of or relating to Saint Patrick.
n
A model of Church organization historically championed in the Eastern Orthodox Church.
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Alternative spelling of philosopher king [A very wise ruler.]
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A member of the Order of Poor Clerics Regular of the Mother of God of the Pious Schools, a Catholic educational order founded in the sixteenth century.
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(Ulster, derogatory) Catholic
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A member of the Order of Canons Regular of Prémontré, a Catholic religious order of canons regular.
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Alternative spelling of priestmonk [a monk who is also a priest]
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(Eastern Orthodox Church) an object of religious reverence
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(Eastern Orthodoxy) A ritual sprinkler used in some Christian rites.
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A member of a French reform branch of the Order of Friars Minor, commonly known as the Franciscans.
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A member of the Order of the Most Holy Redeemer, a female contemplative religious order of the Catholic Church, formed in 1731 as the female counterpart to the Redemptorists.
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A monk of a reformed order.
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(Christianity) A certain order of Franciscans.
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(historical) A person who carried images and symbols in processions of the imperial cult of Ancient Rome.
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(historical) A member of the Servite Order, one of the five original Catholic mendicant orders.
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(Catholicism) A nun of the Order of Mary Immaculate.
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A Roman Catholic lay fraternity for men.
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An elder of a monastery in the Russian Orthodox Church who functions as an adviser and teacher.
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(historical) One of an order of priests established in France in 1642 to educate men for the ministry, and later introduced into Canada and the United States.
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(Mormonism) As opposed to an LDS meetinghouse, a church closed to non-Mormons and necessary for particular rituals.
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(Roman Catholicism) A member of a Roman Catholic third order; a layperson who participates in activities similar to those engaged in by men and women who take religious vows (respectively the first and second orders), and who may wear some elements of an order's habit such as a scapular.
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(religion) A member of a Catholic order established in 1524 in Italy, which consisted of monks and later, nuns under the direction of the monks.
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(Catholicism) A Poor Clare who follows or advocates the use of revised codes of conduct in place of the original precepts established by Saint Clare.
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