adj
(Mormonism) Of or pertaining to the lower order of priests.
n
(religion) The representative leader of all Benedictine congregations.
n
The state, term, or office of an abbot; abbacy.
n
(Roman Catholicism) A representative of the pope charged with important commissions in foreign countries, one of his duties being to bring to a newly named cardinal his insignia of office.
n
(titular) Abbreviation of archbishop. [A senior bishop who is in charge of an archdiocese, and presides over a group of dioceses called a province (in Catholicism, Eastern Orthodoxy, Anglicanism, etc.)]
n
Abbreviation of archbishop. [A senior bishop who is in charge of an archdiocese, and presides over a group of dioceses called a province (in Catholicism, Eastern Orthodoxy, Anglicanism, etc.)]
n
A vote in the election of a pope.
n
(Christianity, historical) In electing a pope, a method by which cardinals could change their most recent vote to accede to another candidate in an attempt to reach the necessary two-thirds majority and end the conclave.
n
(ecclesiastical history) Bishops and certain clergymen not under regular diocesan control.
n
(Christianity) An altar server.
n
The office of an acolyte
n
Abbreviation of archdiocese. [(Christianity) An area administered by an archbishop; the ecclesiastical hierarchy of this area, also under the archbishop.]
n
(obsolete) The vicar of a church.
n
(possibly obsolete) An official (a bishop, or sometimes a minister) who heads a Christian church, especially a Catholic Apostolic Church.
n
Any of the churches worldwide that are in communion with the Church of England, have the same doctrine, and have the Archbishop of Canterbury as supreme head.
n
(historical, ecclesiastical, chiefly in medieval and early modern history) A pretender to the episcopal office, such as a bishop appointed by an antipope. [from 18th c.]
n
(historical, ecclesiastical) A pretender to the office of cardinal.
n
(Christianity) A person who claims or claimed to be the pope, usually as the result of a disputed election or deposition, but is not considered by the Roman Catholic Church to be the real pope.
n
(ecclesiastical) A high-ranking ecclesiastical deputy or other official
n
(historical, ecclesiastical) A high diplomatic representative, approximately equivalent to a papal nuncio.
n
A top-ranking ecclesiastical official in the twelve-seat Mormon administrative council.
n
The office, or responsibilities of an apostle.
adj
Of or pertaining to the pope or the papacy; papal.
n
(rare, Catholicism) The office of a Pope
n
The bishop's seat or throne in ancient churches.
n
(ecclesiastical) An abbey which is the seat of an archabbot (high monastic rank within an order or congregation)
n
(ecclesiastical) In certain Catholic (notably Benedictine) congregations, the title of the general superior, ranking above all other abbots, vested in a particular abbey, which hence is called an archabbey (usually its motherhouse, such as Beuron, which gave its name to a Benedictine congregation).
n
A senior bishop who is in charge of an archdiocese, and presides over a group of dioceses called a province (in Catholicism, Eastern Orthodoxy, Anglicanism, etc.)
n
(ecclesiastical) The realm, sphere, domain, office, or jurisdiction of an archbishop; archbishopric.
n
(ecclesiastical) The rank of archbishop; the state of being an archbishop.
n
(ecclesiastical) The jurisdiction of an archbishop.
n
Obsolete spelling of archbishopric [(ecclesiastical) The rank or office of an archbishop.]
n
The status or office of an archbishop.
n
(Roman Catholicism) A religious confraternity that, as a special concession of the Holy See, can join or affiliate with, and extend privileges to, other similar brotherhoods.
n
Abbreviation of archdeacon. [(Anglicanism, Eastern Orthodoxy) A senior administrative official in a diocese, just under the bishop, often in charge of an archdeaconry. As a title, it can be filled by either a deacon or priest.]
n
(Anglicanism, Eastern Orthodoxy) A senior administrative official in a diocese, just under the bishop, often in charge of an archdeaconry. As a title, it can be filled by either a deacon or priest.
n
The residence, or territorial jurisdiction of an archdeacon
n
The rank or office of an archdeacon.
n
A member of a discontinued Catholic ecclesiastical office, higher in rank than a dean.
n
The headquarters, or jurisdiction of an archdean.
n
(Christianity) An area administered by an archbishop; the ecclesiastical hierarchy of this area, also under the archbishop.
n
(Eastern Orthodoxy) The archbishop of an archeparchy.
n
(Eastern Orthodoxy) An archeparchy, or archdiocese of a archbishop.
adj
(Eastern Orthodoxy) Relating to an archeparchy
n
(Eastern Orthodoxy) The archdiocese of an archbishop in Eastern Christendom
adj
(ecclesiastical) Of or pertaining to an archbishop or an archbishopric.
n
(historical) Formerly, in continental Europe, the chief physician of a prince or city.
adj
(Anglicanism, Eastern Orthodoxy) Pertaining to an archdeacon.
n
Alternative form of archeparchy [(Eastern Orthodoxy) The archdiocese of an archbishop in Eastern Christendom]
n
(ecclesiastical) The form of episcopacy in which the chief power is in the hands of archbishops.
adj
Of or relating to an archbishop or an archbishopric.
n
(ecclesiastical) The rank or dignity of an archbishop; archiepiscopacy.
n
(ecclesiastical) an archbishopric
n
(ecclesiastical) The higher order of clergy in Russia, including metropolitans, archbishops, and bishops.
adj
Of or relating to an archimandrite.
n
(ecclesiastical) The superior of a large monastery, or group of monasteries, in the Orthodox Church.
n
The rank or office of an archon.
n
The office or position of an archon
adj
Of or relating to an archon.
n
The study of historical offices and the people who held them.
n
(ecclesiastical) An archbishop or other chief prelate.
n
(ecclesiastical) An archpriest.
n
(ecclesiastical) The absolute dominion of presbytery.
n
(Roman Catholicism) An honorific title applied to a priest who has a specific function.
n
(ecclesiastical) The office of an archpriest.
n
Synonym of articled clerk
n
The term of office of an Asiarch.
n
(Christianity) The right of autonomy for a church; specifically, the right to resolve all internal problems on its own authority and to appoint its own bishops, including the head of the church, without any obligatory expression of dependence on another church.
adj
(Christianity, of a bishop) Presiding over an autocephalous church.
n
An absolute ruler with infinite power.
n
(Christianity, uncountable) The status of a church whose highest-ranking bishop is appointed by the patriarch of the mother church, but which is self-governing in all other respects. Compare autocephaly.
n
(Britain, slang) A bishop.
v
(Christianity, rare) To provide with bishops.
n
Alternative letter-case form of Bishop of Rome [(Christianity) The pope of the Roman Catholic Church.]
n
The jurisdiction of a bishop; episcopate.
n
The state, condition, or office of a bishop; the episcopate.
n
(archaic) A petty bishop.
adv
In the manner of a bishop.
n
A diocese or region of a church which a bishop governs.
n
Obsolete spelling of bishopric [A diocese or region of a church which a bishop governs.]
n
The office or station of a bishop.
adj
(rare) Relating to the clergy.
n
(historical) In many mediaeval English cathedrals and other collegiate institutions, a boy elected to act or parody the role of a bishop for a part of the Christmas period (traditionally from St Nicholas' Day to Innocents' Day).
n
(titular) Abbreviation of bishop. [(Christianity) An overseer of congregations: either any such overseer, generally speaking, or (in Eastern Orthodoxy, Catholicism, Anglicanism, etc.) an official in the church hierarchy (actively or nominally) governing a diocese, supervising the church's priests, deacons, and property in its territory.]
n
(titular) Abbreviation of Bishop. [(countable) An English surname originating as an occupation.]
adj
(ecclesiastical) Pertaining to, or used in, papal bulls.
n
Obsolete spelling of bishop [(Christianity) An overseer of congregations: either any such overseer, generally speaking, or (in Eastern Orthodoxy, Catholicism, Anglicanism, etc.) an official in the church hierarchy (actively or nominally) governing a diocese, supervising the church's priests, deacons, and property in its territory.]
n
(historical, religion) An official in charge of religious ceremonies.
n
(government, religion) The combination of state (originally imperial) power with religious authority; state authority over ecclesiastical matters.
n
An invitation to take charge of or serve a church as its pastor.
n
The cardinal who administers the Roman Catholic Church in the interregnum between Popes.
n
(plural only) The formal robes of a priest.
n
The office of a canon; a benefice or prebend in a cathedral or collegiate church.
n
The rank or office of canon.
n
(obsolete) The curate of a chapel; a chaplain.
n
(historical) The office or term of office of a capitoul.
n
A member of an ecclesiastical chapter
n
(more loosely) A cardinal who is a bishop anywhere.
n
The dignity and ecclesiastic office of Roman Catholic cardinal.
adj
Of or relating to a cardinal.
n
The office (or term of office) of a cardinal
n
Abbreviation of cathedral. [The principal church of an archbishop's/bishop's archdiocese/diocese which contains an episcopal throne.]
n
The principal church of an archbishop's/bishop's archdiocese/diocese which contains an episcopal throne.
n
A title awarded to a town in the United Kingdom which, before letters patent, held city status by virtue of having a cathedral within its bounds.
n
(Christianity) A high-ranking bishop or patriarch in certain Eastern Christian traditions.
n
(often Christianity, chiefly Eastern Orthodoxy) The leader of a cenobium: an abbot, a guru.
n
The type of building that houses the offices and administration of a diocese; the offices of a diocese.
n
A chapel set up for this purpose
n
Abbreviation of chaplain. [A member of a religious body who is (often, although not always, of the clergy) officially assigned to provide pastoral care at an institution, group, private chapel, etc.]
n
A place of worship in another building or within a civil institution such as a larger church, airport, prison, monastery, school, etc.; often primarily for private prayer.
n
Obsolete spelling of chaplain [A member of a religious body who is (often, although not always, of the clergy) officially assigned to provide pastoral care at an institution, group, private chapel, etc.]
n
A chapel within the jurisdiction of a church; a subordinate ecclesiastical foundation.
n
A clergyman; an official from a chapel.
n
A person without religious affiliation who carries out similar duties in a secular context.
n
Pronunciation spelling of chaplain. [A member of a religious body who is (often, although not always, of the clergy) officially assigned to provide pastoral care at an institution, group, private chapel, etc.]
n
Obsolete form of chapel. [(especially Christianity) A place of worship, smaller than or subordinate to a church.]
n
An assembly of monks, prebendaries and/or other clergymen connected with a cathedral, conventual or collegiate church, or of a diocese, usually presided over by the dean.
n
(historical) An ecclesiastical officer in charge of official documents and records in the Greek Orthodox Church in Byzantine times.
n
Obsolete form of chantry. [An endowment for the maintenance of a priest to sing a daily mass for the souls of specified people]
n
Synonym of chiliarchy: a group of 1000 soldiers commanded by a chiliarch.
n
(historical) The office or position of a chiliarch.
n
Obsolete spelling of church [(countable) A Christian house of worship; a building where Christian religious services take place.]
n
(law, Catholicism) A papal decree whose circulation, unlike an encyclical, is limited to the Roman curia.
n
(historical) An exchanger of benefices; one of a class of secular priests who trafficked in ecclesiastical benefices.
adj
Pertaining to a chorepiscopus or his change or authority.
n
A country or suffragan bishop, appointed in the ancient church by a diocesan bishop to exercise episcopal jurisdiction in a rural district.
n
A list or table, sorted in chronological order, of people who held an office. Mostly used for the succession of bishops.
v
(transitive) To educate someone religiously, as in in a church.
n
A formal meeting of bishops and representatives of several churches who are brought together to regulate points of doctrine or discipline.
n
(Christianity) One of a number of male Christian writers from Antiquity whose doctrinal work is considered authoritative by the later church.
n
Synonym of chapel of ease
n
The national Presbyterian church of Scotland.
n
The establishment of a new local church.
n
(printing, historical) A tall, thin form of black-letter print.
n
Alternative form of churchgoing [The practice of regularly attending church.]
n
Obsolete spelling of church [(countable) A Christian house of worship; a building where Christian religious services take place.]
n
A person (originally a man) of authority in a religious organization; a cleric.
n
Someone with whom one attends a church, or one who regularly goes to the same church.
n
The position, role, or qualities of a church.
n
(US) A similar functionary of the Episcopal church.
n
A type of church pew, typically on the west side, originally reserved for the churchwarden, and often decorated or engraved.
n
(obsolete) A superintendent or keeper of a church's valuables; a churchwarden.
n
(England) An administrative subdivision of a borough or local government district, which is the lowest tier of local government, mainly, but not exclusively, in rural areas.
n
(religion) An ecclesiastical body or judicatory in certain churches, such as the Reformed Dutch. It is intermediate between the consistory and the synod, and corresponds to the presbytery in the Presbyterian church.
n
Obsolete spelling of clergy [Body of persons, such as priests, who are trained and ordained for religious service.]
adj
Alternative form of clergyable [(dated) Entitled to, or admitting, the benefit of clergy.]
adj
(obsolete) learned; erudite; clerical
adj
(obsolete) Of or pertaining to the clergy; clerical; learned.
n
Body of persons, such as priests, who are trained and ordained for religious service.
adj
(dated) Entitled to, or admitting, the benefit of clergy.
adj
Resembling or characteristic of the clergy.
n
An ordained (male) Christian minister, a male member of the clergy.
n
An ordained (male or female) Christian minister, a member of the clergy.
n
(role-playing games) A spellcaster class that receives their spells (especially healing) from their deity.
adj
Of or relating to the clergy.
n
political or secular power invested in members of the clergy.
adj
Of or pertaining to clericalism.
n
The condition of being clerical
n
clerical position; the rank or state of clergy
n
The function of a cleric
n
The state of belonging to the clergy.
n
Obsolete form of cleric. [A member of the clergy.]
n
The clergy, or their opinions, as opposed to the laity.
n
(dated) A cleric or clergyman (the legal title for clergy of the Church of England is "Clerk in Holy Orders", still used in legal documents and cherished by some of their number).
n
(obsolete) an ecclesiastic privately attending upon a monarch, a royal confessor.
n
The role or status of clerk.
n
The role or status of a clerk.
adj
Like or resembling a clerk.
adj
Of clerks; befitting a clerk.
n
Latinised spelling of kleroterion
n
(historical) A settler under the system of cleruchy
n
Alternative form of cleruchy [(historical, Ancient Greece) A form of Athenian colony in the time of Ancient Greece, under which the settlers or cleruchs retained their citizenship, and were assigned plots, or kleroi, of agricultural land, while the community remained a political dependency of Athens.]
adj
Relating to a cleruch or to cleruchy
adj
Of or relating to cleruchy.
n
Alternative form of cenobiarch [(often Christianity, chiefly Eastern Orthodoxy) The leader of a cenobium: an abbot, a guru.]
adj
(ecclesiastical, of a benefice) In which the ordinary (or bishop) is the same person as the patron.
adj
(Roman Catholicism) Ruled by bishops having equal power.
n
power and authority that is shared among peers, especially the sharing of collegiate power among Roman Catholic bishops.
adj
(obsolete) Of or relating to husbandmen.
n
An officer of the bishop, who exercises ecclesiastical jurisdiction in parts of the diocese at a distance from the residence of the bishop.
n
An obscure ecclesiastical council; a conciliable.
adj
Of or pertaining to a council, especially an ecclesiastical council.
n
(Roman Catholicism) A closed meeting in which the elector cardinals of the Roman Catholic Church choose a new pope.
n
The personal aide of a cardinal at a papal conclave.
n
(Methodist Church) A stated meeting of preachers and others, invested with authority to take cognizance of ecclesiastical matters.
n
(Christianity) A licence from the Crown in England issued under the great seal to the dean and chapter of the cathedral church of a diocese, authorizing them to elect a bishop or archbishop upon the vacancy of any episcopal see in England.
n
(historical) A senator of Ancient Rome.
n
(historical, ecclesiastical) councillor of the consistory
adj
(archaic, derogatory) Relating to a Presbyterian consistory.
n
An assembly of prelates; a session of the college of cardinals at Rome.
n
A secret, unauthorized or illegal religious meeting.
adj
(obsolete) Belonging or going to, or resembling, a conventicle.
n
One who shares the role of pastor with another person.
n
A bishop's standard staff of office.
n
Any war instigated and blessed by the Church for alleged religious ends, (especially) papal-sanctioned military campaigns against infidels or heretics.
n
The office or position of a curate
adj
Of or relating to curates.
n
That which is committed to the charge of a parish priest or of a curate.
adj
Of or relating to a curia.
n
The most senior of the five great officers of state in the medieval French royal court.
n
(Roman Catholicism) an officer in the Roman Catholic Church who dispensed benefices
n
(Protestantism) Methodism: A separate office from that of minister, neither leading to the other; instead there is a permanent deaconate.
n
The state or office of being a deacon; deaconship.
adj
Resembling or befitting a deacon.
n
The position or role of a deacon.
n
A dignitary or presiding officer in certain church bodies, especially an ecclesiastical dignitary, subordinate to a bishop, in charge of a chapter of canons.
n
The governing body of a cathedral; the chapter consisting of a group of canons or prebendaries.
n
The group of parishes for which a rural dean has responsibility.
n
(Anglicanism) A group of parishes over which a dean presides; a deanery.
adj
(church architecture) Of the side of the chancel, apse, altar or choir on which the dean's stall is placed (the right hand side to a person facing the altar); decanal.
n
A member of a group of ten rulers
n
(Catholicism) One who oversees either an ecclesiastical property under a bishop or possesses an office in a religious order.
n
Deacons considered as a group; a body or board of deacons.
n
The study of the offices and hierarchy of a particular church (organization).
adj
Relating to a dicastery.
n
A ministry or department of the Roman Curia of the Holy See, whether administrative or ecclesiastical.
n
(historical) A magistrate without colleague in republican Ancient Rome, who held full executive authority for a term granted by the senate (legislature), typically to conduct a war.
n
(religion) Region administered by a bishop.
n
(Christianity) A dominion; an angel from a high order of angels in the celestial hierarchy.
n
A clergyman; especially a settled minister or parson.
n
(South Africa) A minister of the Dutch Reformed Church; a predikant.
adj
Abbreviation of ecclesiastical. [Of or pertaining to the church.]
n
(ecclesiastical) A church, either as a body or as a building.
n
An official of the Eastern Church, resembling a sacrist in the Western Church.
n
Union of church and state.
n
(rare) A member of any ecclesia (church or other assembly).
adj
Of or pertaining to the church.
adj
Obsolete form of ecclesiastical. [Of or pertaining to the church.]
n
Obsolete form of ecclesiastic. [A cleric.]
n
The field of study of the church.
n
government by church leaders
n
(rare, usually in the plural) One who shows excessive dedication to the church as an institution, rather than to the religion it serves.
n
(Christianity) The chief official in the monastic system of Ethiopia.
n
Alternative form of ecclesia [(historical) The public legislative assembly of the Athenians.]
n
An officer of a church, sometimes having teaching responsibilities.
v
(UK, uncommon) To create a parish for an area, in particular a civil parish.
n
A belief in or support for the absolute authority of an emperor or similar supreme ruler.
n
An encyclical; a papal letter.
n
(Mormonism) A ceremony designed to prepare participants for their role in the afterlife.
n
(Eastern Orthodoxy) The metropolitan bishop of a province or eparchy.
n
An eparchy, or diocese of a bishop.
adj
Of or pertaining to an eparchy.
adj
Relating to an eparchy.
n
In pre-schism Christian Church, a province under the supervision of the metropolitan.
n
The office of bishop and the governance of the Church by bishops.
adj
Of or relating to the affairs of a bishop in various Christian churches.
n
Any Church whose organization is based around bishops; but especially any Church of the Anglican Communion
adj
episcopal, pertaining to a bishop of any church
n
(Christianity, obsolete) A bishop.
n
Bishops seen as a group.
v
Alternative form of episcopize [(intransitive) To perform the duties of a bishop.]
v
(intransitive) To perform the duties of a bishop.
n
(Ireland, historical, ecclesiastical) the office of erenagh
n
A population and area of land governed by a single ruler, called an ethnarch, and in which the population is of homogeneous ethnicity and the political unit is of insufficient size to be considered a kingdom or nation.
n
A co-bishop; a coadjutor bishop.
n
(historical) The province or area of an exarch.
n
(Church of England) A licence to make alterations to a church.
n
A member of a pope's or bishop's household.
n
(Ancient Rome, politics, religion, historical) A member of the Roman college of priests who acted as representatives in disputes with foreign nations.
n
(UK, historical) A clergyman based in or near the Fleet prison, who was ready to marry couples at any time, without public notice, witnesses, or parental consent.
n
(informal) An itinerant bishop of the Church of England appointed to administer within another's diocese to those who refuse to accept the ordination of women.
n
(historical) A chapel founded by the king of England or built under a grant from the king, which is not subject to the jurisdiction of the local bishop or other ruling member of the clergy.
n
(Roman Catholicism, politics) The doctrine, traced back to Pope Gelasius I, that there are two authorities governing human affairs, the spiritual authority of the church and the temporal authority of the empire or secular government.
n
(chess) A bishop that has high mobility.
n
A short, formulaic speech in Latin that announces the identity of a newly elected pope.
n
Obsolete spelling of heresiarch [(religion) The founder of a heresy, or a major ecclesiastical proponent of such a heresy.]
n
A member of a Roman Catholic chapter or convent whose week it is to officiate in the choir and perform other services, which, on extraordinary occasions, are performed by the superiors.
n
(Christianity, historical) A poor and generally illiterate parson.
n
(Christianity, historical) An ignorant itinerant priest.
n
The ruler of one of the parts of a hexarchy.
n
(religion) One who has high and controlling authority in sacred things; the chief of a sacred order.
adj
Of or pertaining to an ecclesiastic or priestly order.
n
(historical, Middle Ages) The doctrine that the pope held supreme temporal, and not just spiritual, power.
n
(Christianity) A martyr in the Eastern Church who was a bishop or priest
n
The role or the work of a hierophant.
n
(religion) A clergyman with a higher function than a normal priest.
n
Alternative form of high priest [(religion) A clergyman with a higher function than a normal priest.]
n
The office or dignity of a highpriest.
adj
Of or pertaining to a highpriest.
n
The office of a high priest.
n
(Roman Catholicism) A honorific style for a cardinal
n
An honorific or title used to refer to a high-ranking religious leader.
n
(historical) The Inquisition.
n
the episcopal jurisdiction of the Bishop of Rome, commonly known as the Pope. It is the preeminent see of the Catholic Church. It is also the sovereign entity headed by the Pope which governs the Vatican and represents the Catholic Church in temporal affairs.
n
(historical) In Ancient Roman law, a person who was banned and could be killed by anybody, but not sacrificed in a religious ritual.
n
(UK, law, religion) A clergyman so inducted.
adj
(Roman Catholicism) Designated as a cardinal but not yet announced.
n
(Christianity) The act by which a bishop commits a cure of souls to a priest.
n
(obsolete) A presbyter appointed by the bishop to institute a rector or assistant minister over a parish church.
n
A diplomatic representative of the Pope ranking below a nuncio.
n
(historical) One who favours the appointment of a clergyman to a parish, by a patron, against the wishes of the parishioners.
n
An equal of the Apostles.
n
(religion) A secondary school for young people planning to enter religious life.
n
(Christianity) The lowest court in Presbyterian churches, being the governing body of a particular congregation.
n
(historical) A plot of agricultural land granted to a citizen under the cleruchy system.
n
(very rare) A word used in the title of a church or a religious group or class.
n
An academic degree conferred by the Archbishop of Canterbury under the authority of the Ecclesiastical Licences Act 1533.
n
The bishops of the Anglican or Roman Catholic churches.
n
(UK) A professional, adult singer in a church or university choir.
n
(religion)A person who is not ordained but is appointed to lead Church services in a religious denomination.
n
A layman who enjoys the great tithes of a parish.
n
(religion) A person who is not ordained but is appointed to lead Church services.
n
(UK) Synonym of lay clerk in certain choirs.
n
(UK) Alternative form of lay clerk. [(UK) A professional, adult singer in a church or university choir.]
n
A deputy representing the pope, specifically a papal ambassador sent on special ecclesiastical missions.
n
A letter from the sovereign addressed to a dean and chapter, naming the person they are to elect bishop.
n
A Taoist religious office analogous to that of parish priest.
n
A leader in public worship.
n
(canon law) A position in a church (usually the Church of England) that has attached to it a source of income; an ecclesiastical benefice.
n
(religion) A person who is not ordained but is appointed to lead Church services in some religious denominations.
n
The 26 bishops of the Church of England who serve in the House of Lords.
n
A male member of the clergy.
n
(rare) A leader or founder of a monastic order.
n
(Catholicism) The chief novice in an order.
n
(Christianity, West Syriac) catholicos, high-ranking bishop
n
(historical) A Roman Catholic secular priest, distinct from those living under a rule.
n
A very large (especially religious) ministry.
n
The body of members of an organization.
n
Having the position of, or being ordained by God as the Messiah.
n
(law) Abbreviation of metropolitan. [(Orthodox Christianity) A bishop empowered to oversee other bishops; an archbishop.]
n
(now rare) A bishop's see.
n
(Orthodox Christianity) The see of a metropolitan bishop, ranking above its suffragan diocesan bishops.
n
(Orthodox Christianity) A bishop empowered to oversee other bishops; an archbishop.
n
(Orthodox Christianity) A bishop empowered to oversee other bishops; an archbishop.
n
The see of a metropolitan bishop.
n
(Orthodox Christianity) The see or province of a metropolitan.
v
to function as a clergyman or as the officiant in church worship
adj
Related to a religious minister or ministry.
n
Obsolete form of minister. [A person who is trained to preach, to perform religious ceremonies, and to afford pastoral care at a Protestant church.]
n
(Christianity) The clergy of nonapostolic Protestant churches.
n
The office of a minister.
n
(Christianity) A cleric in orders, attached to a cathedral and having the duty of assisting the canons in singing divine service.
n
(Catholicism, historical) One of the orders of the Catholic Church lower than the major orders (diaconate and priesthood); i.e. the order of acolyte, exorcist, lector or porter.
n
(Christianity, obsolete) A lesser cleric.
n
(derogatory) A religious messenger.
n
(Christianity) A bishop assigned in the Anglican Communion (and, until 1964, in Methodist churches) to an area that is not already organized under a bishop of a church.
n
(Christianity) A Roman Catholic priest appointed to the charge of some important mission in England.
n
The person who presides over a synod of a Presbyterian Church.
n
The position or role of a monk.
n
(Roman Catholicism) An ecclesiastic title bestowed on some Roman Catholic clerics by the Pope
n
(rare) The condition of being a monsignor
n
The convent which is the seat (and often the above original foundation) of the superior of an order or congregation, and/or on which lower ranking houses (such as priories under an abbot) depend.
n
A document issued by the Pope on his own initiative directed to the Roman Catholic Church.
n
The office of a neokoros
adj
Of or pertaining to a nuncio.
n
(Roman Catholicism) The ecclesiastic title of a permanent diplomatic representative of the Roman Catholic Church to a sovereign state or international organization, who is accorded a rank equivalent to an accredited ambassador, and may also be given additional privileges including recognition as Dean in a country's diplomatic corps.
adj
Of, pertaining to, or resembling a nun.
n
Any official position under an abbot's jurisdiction.
n
Alternative form of obedientiary [The holder of a monastic rank or office below that of superior.]
n
A deacon or subdeacon who receives the oblations of the faithful
n
(ecclesiastical) A priest or other person who serves as the bursar or finance officer of a diocese or religious institution (chiefly Roman Catholic usage), an episcopal oeconomus temporarily takes charge of church property in the event of an episcopal vacancy.
n
(Christianity) The authorized form of ceremonial worship of a church.
adj
Relating to an ecclesiastical judge appointed by a bishop, chapter, archdeacon, etc., with charge of the spiritual jurisdiction.
n
A person who officiates at a religious ceremony (other than the Eucharist)
n
A ruler of the world or everything.
n
Alternative letter-case form of oratory: a church belonging to the Oratory. [A private chapel or prayer room.]
n
A person (usually a clergyman) who ordains.
n
The office of a Roman Catholic ordinary, especially a bishop.
n
(ecclesiastical, law) A person having immediate jurisdiction in a given case of ecclesiastical law, such as the bishop within a diocese.
n
One who keeps the door, especially the door of a church; a porter.
v
Only used in outpope the Pope
v
(idiomatic) To act as a more authentic member of a group than one who is actually a member of the group.
n
A Roman Catholic or Anglican priest.
n
(Ancient Rome, law, historical) Usually in the plural form Pandects: a compendium or digest of writings on Roman law divided in 50 books, compiled in the 6th century C.E. by order of the Eastern Roman emperor Justinian I (c. 482–565).
n
A cardinal among those likely to be elected pope.
adj
Having to do with the pope or the papacy.
n
An official document or edict from the Pope.
n
(Roman Catholicism) The concept that the Pope, under certain circumstance (when making a statement on faith or morals, etc.) is protected by the Holy Spirit from being able to make a mistake.
n
the supreme and universal power of the Pope, which he can always exercise unhindered, over the Roman Catholic Church
n
love and adoration for the pope or the papacy
n
Government by a pope; papal rule.
n
(chiefly Scotland, Ireland, derogatory) A Roman Catholic; a Papist.
n
(archaic, religious slur, Christianity) A Roman Catholic; a papist.
adj
(religious slur, Christianity) The quality of being a papist.
adj
(derogatory) Being of or connected with the Roman Catholic faith.
adj
(derogatory) Being of or connected with the Roman Catholic faith.
adv
In a papistical manner; by, or with reference to, a pope.
adj
(obsolete, rare) Conformed to popery.
n
(historical) In medieval Catholicism, a person licensed to grant papal pardons or indulgences.
v
(intransitive) To visit residents of a parish.
n
The one who leads the responses in the service of the Church of England.
n
(US) A rectory or vicarage.
n
(Roman Catholicism) The main priest serving a parish.
n
(thieves' cant, obsolete) A parson.
n
(in the UK) a seat on a parish council which is won in an election.
n
(uncommon, chiefly Scotland, other dialects and non-native speakers' English) A parishioner.
adj
(now rare) Of or pertaining to a parish; parochial.
n
(obsolete, Scotland) Alternative form of parish [In the Anglican, Eastern Orthodox, Lutheran and Roman Catholic Church, an administrative part of a diocese that has its own church.]
adj
Pertaining to a parish.
n
A parish priest who assists the parish administrator. This is a priest who is assigned by the competent authority to assist the pastor in the pastoral ministry of a parish. Together as co-workers, the pastor and parochial vicar(s) carry out the functions of teaching, sanctifying and leading the people entrusted to their care. The parochial vicar is subject to the authority of the pastor.
n
(obsolete) A parishioner.
n
An Anglican cleric having full legal control of a parish under ecclesiastical law; a rector.
n
The residence of the minister of a parish.
n
(rare) parsons collectively; the world of parsons, i.e. the established church
adj
Of or relating to a parson; clerical.
adv
In the manner of a parson.
adj
(colloquial, derogatory) Like, or befitting, a parson.
n
(Catholicism) An ecclesiastical community of faithful headed by a bishop (or equivalent) as defined by Catholic canon law and ecclesiology.
n
One who, or that which, pastes.
n
(historical) A type of priest in ancient Egypt, responsible for carrying holy shrines in official ceremonies or processions.
n
The role or responsibilities of a pastor.
adj
Relating to the care of souls, to the pastor of a church or to any local religious leader charged with the service of individual parishioners, i.e. a priest or rabbi.
n
The basic unit of the United Church of Canada, consisting of one or more congregations under the spiritual leadership of a minister or ministry team.
n
The period of service of a particular pastor to their congregation; their term of office.
n
A female pastor (minister or priest of a Christian church)
n
(US, Southern US) A parsonage, in some Baptist churches.
adj
Resembling or characteristic of a pastor.
n
An entrepreneur who sets up churches as a business venture.
n
Dignity or office of a pastor.
v
Obsolete spelling of pastor [(Christianity, transitive, intransitive) To serve a congregation as pastor]
n
(rare) Synonym of pastoress
n
(Christianity) The highest form of bishop, in the ancient world having authority over other bishops in the province but now generally as an honorary title; in Roman Catholicism, considered a bishop second only to the Pope in rank.
n
(Roman Catholicism) Each of the five great basilicae of Rome, viz. the Lateran, St Peter’s, St Paul’s outside the Walls, St Mary Major’s, and St Lawrence’s outside the Walls.
n
The office or ecclesial jurisdiction of such a patriarch.
n
The office or jurisdiction of a patriarch.
n
(Christianity) The office of a patriarch; a patriarchate.
n
One familiar with the works of the Christian Fathers; one versed in patristic lore or life.
n
(slang, obsolete, thieves' cant) A gypsies' or beggars' hedge priest.
n
(UK, canon law) an ecclesiastical district, parish, chapel or church outside the jurisdiction of the bishop of the diocese in which it is situated.
n
(historical) A resident parish priest or incumbent curate within the United Church of England and Ireland, supported by a cash stipend, usually maintained by an endowment fund, and having no ancient right to income from tithe or glebe.
n
(Roman Catholicism) A canonical structure equivalent to a diocese, administered by an ordinary and providing for the pastoral needs of former Anglicans who have joined the Catholic Church.
n
Someone who is part of a small group that controls the petroleum industry, and hence has power over lives and governments similar to the powers of an oligarch.
n
(UK) An usher in a church.
n
One who has a pew reserved for themselves in church.
n
The system by which people can reserve pews for themselves in a church.
n
(Roman Catholicism) A ring worn by popes, representing the first pope and Christian apostle Peter, who had been a fisherman.
n
parish (area under the control of a parish church)
n
(chiefly historical) A form of government administered by several councils rather than individual ministers; specifically that of Regency France from 1715-1718.
n
(historical) A pontiff, or high priest, in Ancient Rome.
n
(figuratively) Any chief figure or leader of a religion.
adj
Alternative form of pontifical [Of or pertaining to a bishop; episcopal.]
adj
Of or pertaining to a pope; papal.
n
The state and government of the pope; the papacy.
v
(intransitive) To preside as a bishop, especially at mass.
adj
(obsolete) papal; pontifical
adj
Of or relating to the pontiff or pope.
n
A person interested in bridges.
n
(Russian Orthodoxy, uncommon) A Russian Orthodox priest; a parson.
n
(by extension) Any similar head of a religion.
n
The jurisdiction of the pope.
n
The status of pope; papacy.
adj
Of or befitting a pope
n
A term used as a title or designation.
adj
(derogatory) acting like, or holding beliefs similar to, the pope.
n
(Roman Catholicism, historical, sometimes capitalized) The period of the papacy known as the saeculum obscūrum (Latin for “dark age”), and also as the “Rule of the Harlots”, which began with the installation of Pope Sergius III in 904 and lasted for sixty years until the death of Pope John XII in 964, during which time the popes were strongly influenced by the Theophylacti, a powerful and corrupt aristocratic family.
n
One of the incumbents of a benefice that has two or more rectors or vicars.
adj
In or of the period following an ecclesiastical council, especially the Second Vatican Council.
n
A Roman Catholic official who makes the case for the beatification or canonization of a proposed saint.
n
Initialism of parish priest. [(Roman Catholicism) The main priest serving a parish.]
n
(after 366 BC) An annually-elected curule magistrate, subordinate to the consuls in provincial administration, and who performed some of their duties; numbering initially only one, later two (either of the praetor urbānus (“urban praetor”) or the praetor peregrīnus (“peregrine praetor”)), and eventually eighteen.
n
(Ancient Rome) A praetor.
n
Someone who preaches a worldview, philosophy, or religion, especially someone who preaches the gospel; a clergyman or clergywoman.
n
The realm or sphere of preachers.
adj
Resembling or characteristic of a preacher.
n
The role or office of a preacher.
n
An honorary canon of a cathedral or collegiate church.
n
The role or office of a prebendary.
n
The role or office of a precentor.
n
(obsolete) Rare spelling of precentor. [The person who leads songs or prayers in a cathedral, church, monastery, or synagogue and generally facilitates worship.]
n
(chiefly South Africa) A minister in the Dutch Reformed Church, or allied denomination.
n
(historical) An official of Ancient Rome who controlled or superintended a particular command, charge, department, etc.
n
The office of a prelate.
n
A clergyman of high rank and authority, having jurisdiction over an area or a group of people; normally a bishop.
n
The rank or office of prelate.
adj
Pertaining to a prelate
adj
Alternative form of prelatical [Pertaining to a prelate; prelatial.]
adj
(chiefly derogatory) Adhering to prelates; episcopal.
n
One who advocates or supports prelacy, or the government of the church by prelates.
n
(obsolete, rare) The state or dignity of a prelate; prelacy; prelature.
n
(now historical) The system of ecclesiastic governance by prelates or bishops; episcopacy, prelacy.
adj
Of or pertaining to a presbyter or presbytery; presbyterial.
n
A priest; also, presbytership.
n
A presbytery run by the Women's Missionary Society.
n
A form of Christian church government characterized by rule by bodies of presbyters or elders.
n
(architecture) A presbytery.
n
The office or station of a presbyter; presbyterate.
n
The home of a Roman Catholic parish priest.
n
(Christianity) The role of ordained clergy in the celebration of the Eucharist in some denominations.
n
(obsolete) A priest or presbyter.
adj
Alternative form of praetorian [(Ancient Rome) Of or relating to a praetor.]
adj
Alternative spelling of praetorian [(Ancient Rome) Of or relating to a praetor.]
n
(Mormonism) the highest office in the Aaronic priesthood
n
(religion) A theocrat, a sovereign high priest.
adj
Dominated or plagued by priests.
n
The craft of performing the duties of a priest.
n
(rare) Priests collectively or priests of a particular religious group or affiliation collectively.
n
(derogatory, obsolete) Priests collectively; the priesthood.
n
(religious slur, uncommon) A female Christian priest or minister, typically in a Protestant, Old Catholic, or independent Catholic denomination.
n
Priesthood as it relates to priestesses, i.e. the female kind.
n
The role or office of a priest.
n
The influence, doctrines, principles, etc., of priests or the priesthood.
n
(derogatory) A petty, insignificant priest.
adj
Of or relating to priests.
n
a monk who is also a priest
adj
Alternative form of priest-ridden [Dominated or plagued by priests.]
n
(religion) the office or dignity of an archbishop
n
(ecclesiastical) In the Catholic Church, a rare title conferred to or claimed by the sees of certain archbishops, or the highest-ranking bishop of a present or historical, usually political circumscription.
n
One of the bishops of the Scottish Episcopal Church, who presides at the meetings of the bishops, and has certain privileges but no metropolitan authority.
n
A bishop who also holds a secular princely rank, regardless whether its territory concurs wholly or partially with his diocese.
n
Alternative spelling of prince bishop [A bishop who also holds a secular princely rank, regardless whether its territory concurs wholly or partially with his diocese.]
n
The archbishop of Esztergom in Hungary.
adj
Used in place of a cathedral.
adj
(Quakerism) having a minister or pastor who conducts religious services.
n
(Christianity) A member of the Promise Keepers, an Evangelical Christian parachurch organization for men, founded in the United States in 1990.
adj
Relating to a propraetor
n
(religion) A place of prayer; among the Jews, one that was not a synagogue, or the temple, usually roofless.
n
(Roman Catholicism) A cardinal, from one of the more considerable Roman Catholic nations, who looks after the interests of his people at Rome; also, a cardinal who has the same relation to a college, religious order, etc.
n
(Greek Orthodox Church, historical) The chief secretary of the patriarch of Constantinople.
n
Alternative form of protopriest [(Christianity) The first cardinal priest in the order of precedence in the College of Cardinals, who has the honour of pronouncing the formal prayer for the new pope at the papal inauguration.]
n
A highly ranked non-monastic deacon who has special privileges.
n
(religion, Greek Church) A protopope.
n
One of the clergy of first rank in the lower order of secular clergy; an archpriest.
n
(Christianity) The first cardinal priest in the order of precedence in the College of Cardinals, who has the honour of pronouncing the formal prayer for the new pope at the papal inauguration.
n
The deputy of an Eastern Orthodox or Eastern Catholic bishop.
n
(Christianity) An area under the jurisdiction of an archbishop, typically comprising a number of adjacent dioceses.
adj
Of or pertaining to an ecclesiastical province, or to the jurisdiction of an archbishop; not ecumenical.
n
(religion, historical) A dean: the head of a cathedral chapter.
adj
Pertaining to a provost.
n
The priest who presided over a prytaneum.
n
(historical, Ancient Greece) The period during which the presidency of the senate belonged to the prytanes of the section
n
Obsolete form of precentor. [The person who leads songs or prayers in a cathedral, church, monastery, or synagogue and generally facilitates worship.]
n
Alternative spelling of praetorian [(Ancient Rome) A praetor.]
n
(historical, ecclesiastical, chiefly in medieval and early modern history) A cardinal appointed by an antipope and consequently seen as illegitimate by the pope and those who recognize him.
adj
Relating to a quaestor.
n
The rank or office of rabbi.
n
The residence of an Anglican rector.
n
The doctrine of the ecclesiastical supremacy of a sovereign.
n
(Christianity, historical) A Roman Catholic ecclesiastic having jurisdiction over certain districts of Rome.
adj
Of or pertaining to an ecclesiastical region.
n
A member of a religious order who has taken the three ordinary vows.
n
In Catholicism, any of a number of individuals, including priests, cardinals, bishops, and the supreme pontiff.
n
a priest who is a member of a particular religious order or society
adj
(rare) Positioned behind the presbytery of a cathedral
n
(informal) A member of the Christian clergy; a minister.
n
(historical) A senatorial priesthood in Ancient Rome, reserved for patricians.
n
(Catholicism) A branch of the papal Curia which serves as an appellate court in ecclesiastical cases, including cases of marriage nullity.
n
(Christianity) A dean who, under the bishop, has the special care and inspection of the clergy in certain parishes.
n
(obsolete) a priestly office or character
n
(religion, derogatory) Excessive sacerdotalism; focus on priests to the exclusion of other aspects of religion.
adj
(religion) Of or relating to priests or a high religious order; priestly.
n
The belief that priests can act as mediators between God and mankind.
n
The duties or position of a sacristan.
n
A room in a church where sacred vessels, books, vestments, etc. are kept. Sometimes also used by clergy to prepare for worship or for meetings.
n
One who wears scarlet robes of office, such as a cardinal.
n
A church official whose functions are confined to the vocal department of the choir.
adv
During the vacancy of an episcopal see.
n
(Christianity) A papal or episcopal see when there is a partial cessation by the incumbent of his episcopal duties.
n
The office of a bishop or archbishop; bishopric or archbishopric
adj
Somewhat or partly clerical.
n
(Roman Catholicism) A student training to be a priest at a Roman Catholic seminary.
n
A Roman Catholic priest educated in a foreign seminary; a seminarist.
n
The dignity or office of a shepherd.
n
(UK) Synonym of lay clerk in certain choirs for a male singer.
n
a person who gives religious or sacred leadership, though not necessarily the leader of a religious organization
n
(obsolete, rare) leader of a sedition
adj
(of an Eastern Orthodox or an Eastern Catholic monastery, church or brotherhood) Subordinated directly to the primate of the church (e.g. the patriarch) or the synod rather than to a local bishop.
n
(Eastern Christianity) The highest of the minor orders below that of a deacon
n
The office of subdeacon; subdeaconship.
n
the office of a subdeacon
adj
(Roman Catholicism) Describing any of the six dioceses surrounding Rome, which are always headed by Cardinals of the highest rank.
n
A bishop seen in relation to his archbishop or metropolitan province (which may summon him for support, to attend synods etc.).
n
(informal) A large, well-equipped modern church, often formed by the union of several smaller churches.
n
In some Protestant churches, a clergyman having the oversight of the clergy of a district.
n
The head of certain religious institutions and colleges.
n
The monastic role or position of superior.
n
(Catholicism, Anglicanism) A priest not assigned to a particular parish who is available to substitute temporarily for a parish priest who is ill, on vacation, or otherwise unavailable.
n
(Christianity) One who holds an office in an Eastern Catholic or Orthodox Church roughly equivalent to that of an episcopal vicar in the Roman Catholic Church.
n
Alternative form of synedrion [An assembly that holds formal sessions.]
n
An administrative division of churches, either the entire denomination, as in the Lutheran Church–Missouri Synod, or a mid-level division (middle judicatory, district) as in the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America
n
The office of a Syriarch.
v
To become a clergyman, especially a priest.
n
(Mormonism) The second highest office in the Aaronic priesthood, held by priesthood holders of at least the age of 14.
adj
(obsolete) Of or relating to a temple.
n
(geography) The land ruled by such a government, either together or separately.
n
The course of study for Roman Catholic priests.
n
The seat of a bishop in the cathedral-church of his diocese; also, the seat of a pope.
n
A church to which a priest was ordained, and where he was to reside.
n
The person from whom a church takes its special name; distinguished from a patron, who must be canonized or an angel.
n
A Roman Catholic bishop without a diocese, taking his title from a place where there is no longer a bishop's see.
n
(Christianity) Any of the parish churches of Rome supplying a title to cardinal priests.
n
Alternative form of toparchy [A small state, consisting of a few cities or towns; a petty country governed by a toparch.]
n
(Catholicism) A deacon intending to become a priest and therefore obliged to begin assuming additional responsibilities, such as the recitation of the breviary.
n
The domed or vaulted apse in a Christian church that houses the bishop's throne.
n
(historical, derogatory) A man appointed as a bishop in Scotland after the Reformation, who was a bishop in name only and whose revenue was drawn by his patron.
n
(UK) An ecclesiastical who holds only one benefice.
n
The office or position of an usher.
n
Initialism of vicar apostolic. [(Christianity) A Roman Catholic prelate who is ordained (titular) bishop and administers a missionary jurisdiction that is not (yet) a diocese, but ranks higher then an apostolic prefecture.]
n
(Christianity) A highly educated archimandrite in the Armenian Apostolic Church tradition who holds a Doctorate in Theology.
n
(metonymically) The papal government; the papacy, the Holy See.
n
The doctrine of papal supremacy; views in support of the authority of the pope.
n
One who strongly adheres to the papal authority.
n
(chiefly Britain, Christianity) A lay person who takes care of the interior of a church and acts as an attendant during services, where he or she carries the verge (or virge). In the United States, the office is generally combined with that of sexton.
n
An assembly of persons who manage parochial affairs; so called because usually held in a vestry.
n
An officer chosen by the vestry who keeps the parish accounts and books.
n
The system of the government of parishes by vestries.
n
a member of a parochial vestry
n
The role or status of a vestryman.
n
(nonstandard, rare) A vestryman or vestrywoman.
n
The head verger of a church.
n
Abbreviation of vicar. [In the Church of England, the priest of a parish, receiving a salary or stipend but not tithes.]
n
In the Church of England, the priest of a parish, receiving a salary or stipend but not tithes.
n
(Christianity) A Roman Catholic prelate who is ordained (titular) bishop and administers a missionary jurisdiction that is not (yet) a diocese, but ranks higher then an apostolic prefecture.
n
(UK) Synonym of lay clerk in certain choirs.
n
A priest entrusted by the bishop with a certain degree of leadership in a territorial division of a diocese or a pastoral region.
n
(Roman Catholicism) The Pope.
n
(Christianity) An assistant, whether cleric or lay, at an English cathedral, especially in connection with the music.
n
(countable) The residence of a vicar.
n
The territory for which a vicar is responsible.
n
The territory for which a vicar forane is responsible.
adj
Of or pertaining to a vicar
n
Obsolete form of vicar. [In the Church of England, the priest of a parish, receiving a salary or stipend but not tithes.]
n
(Catholicism) A man in the Roman Catholic Church who has a right to vote in certain elections.
n
The announcement to the outside world that a conclave has chosen a new Pope.
n
An honorific or title used to refer to a high-ranking religious leader, such as the Pope.
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