n
(Roman Catholicism, historical) One of a college of seventy-two officers of the papal court whose duty was to make a short minute of a decision on a petition, or reply of the pope to a letter, and afterwards expand the minute into official form.
n
(ecclesiastical) The intrusion of a person into a bishopric during the life of the bishop.
n
The position, post, or duty of being an apostle
n
(Catholicism) In the Catholic Church, a papal representative with a transient mission to perform a canonical visitation of relatively short duration and to submit a report to the Holy See afterwards.
n
A messenger or officer who serves the process of an ecclesiastical court.
adj
of, like or pertaining to headmasters
n
(rare) A foremost practitioner.
n
(obsolete) secret tribunal, conclave
n
A bishop who functions as another bishop's deputy, where the weight of sacramental duties is too much for a single bishop.
v
(by extension, jocularly, obsolete) To confirm (in its other senses).
n
The official chair of some position or office, as of a professor.
n
The office or position of chanter; precentorship.
n
A payment once paid to support the clergy, sometimes in the form of grain or other crops.
n
The state or business of a clerk.
n
(ecclesiastical) An assistant to a bishop.
n
(Roman Catholicism) An auxiliary bishop with the right of succession, i.e., he becomes bishop upon the death, removal or retirement of the incumbent bishop.
n
(historical) The successor to the founder of a religious institution.
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(Ancient Roman historical and law) The requirement of a grant bestowing right of assembly and allowing the formation of a collegium under the Roman Empire.
n
Alternative form of coarb [(historical) The successor to the founder of a religious institution.]
n
Alternative form of coarb [(historical) The successor to the founder of a religious institution.]
n
(historical) A popular legislative assembly in ancient Rome.
adj
Of or pertaining to a consistory
n
An assistant rector or vicar.
n
The position of a curate; a curacy.
n
(historical) The Roman senate during the republic
n
(Roman Catholicism) An area under the jurisdiction of a custos within the Order of Friars Minor.
n
(Roman Catholicism, historical) Part of the Roman Catholic Curia, abolished in 1967, from which were sent graces or favours such as appointments to benefices.
v
(US, slang) To make sly alterations to the boundaries of (land); to adulterate or doctor (an article to be sold), etc.
adj
Pertaining to a dean or deanery.
n
(ecclesiastical) the patron of a church; an officer having charge of the temporal affairs of a church
n
A counselor, confessor, or spiritual guide.
n
The position or office of being an elder.
adj
(UK, law, religion) Presented, instituted, and inducted into a rectory, and in full possession.
n
A bishop who acts during a vacancy in a see.
n
Alternative form of internuncio [A diplomatic representative of the Pope ranking below a nuncio.]
n
(politics) A period of time during which normal executive leadership is suspended or interrupted.
n
The role or post of a lector.
n
The office or authority of a legate.
n
The teaching authority or office of the Roman Catholic Church.
adj
Appropriate for or characteristic of a minister.
n
The state or business of a missionary.
adj
Having sole or undivided authority.
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The term of service of a nuncio.
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One who ordains or establishes; a director.
v
(transitive) To place (an area, or rarely a person) into one or more parishes.
n
(Jersey, government) the decision-making body of local government, comprising ratepayers and electors of the parish
n
(Scotland, historical) A board in each parish set up to assist the poor.
n
A system within the Church of England in which the rector or vicar of a parish holds title to benefice property, such as the church, churchyard or parsonage, the ownership passing to his successor.
n
Formerly, a church estate or endowment.
n
(historical, Roman antiquity) One of a class eligible to the office of senator, but not yet chosen, who could sit and speak in the senate, but could not vote.
n
(obsolete) An offering formerly made to the parish priest, or to the mother church, at Pentecost.
n
(historical, archaic) Alternative form of prepositus. [(historical) A provost: the presiding officer of various ecclesiastical bodies.]
n
(by extension) A venal mercenary.
n
(historical) The office or term of a praetor.
adj
Of or pertaining to a prefect.
n
The office or position of a prefect.
n
The role or office of a prelector.
n
The office or dignity of a provost; a provostship.
n
(by extension) A council of war.
n
A chairman of the lower house of a convocation in the Anglican Church.
n
(historical) The office of a propraetor.
adj
Of or pertaining to a protector; protectorial.
n
The college constituted by the twelve apostolic prothonotaries in Rome.
n
(Roman Catholicism) One of the seven prelates, constituting a college in the Roman Curia, whose office is to register pontifical acts and to make and preserve the official record of beatifications.
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(Roman Catholicism) The deputy of an vicar apostolic
n
(Roman Catholicism) A monastic superior, who, under the general of his order, has the direction of all the religious houses of the same fraternity in a given district, called a province of the order.
n
The office of a provincial (monastic superior)
n
A deputy of a Roman Catholic bishop.
n
(religion) The minister of the chief Protestant church of a town or region in Germany, the Low Countries, and Scandinavia.
n
Alternative form of pretorium [(historical) The general's tent in an Ancient Roman camp.]
n
The office or rank of a rector; rectorate.
n
(historical) A committee of ministers sent by the General Assembly to carry out an ordination or induction, where the local presbytery refused to act, under the Moderate domination in 18th-century Scotland.
n
(Roman Catholicism) A kind of dicastery within the Roman Curia.
n
The vacancy of an episcopal see.
n
(canon law) A papal or episcopal see when vacant.
n
A board consisting of representatives of the ratepayers, as opposed to the common vestry or assembly of all the ratepayers.
n
(historical) A member of the ancient Roman Senate.
n
The governing body of a Scottish university, consisting of the principal and professors.
n
(obsolete, biblical) An elder or presbyter in the early Church.
n
The office or position of a sexton.
adj
Relating to a sheriff.
adj
Relating to a subdeacon.
n
The office or rank of a subdeacon.
n
An assembly that holds formal sessions.
n
The term of this office.
n
An episocopal see which has no resident bishop in a former diocese that no longer functions.
n
A small state, consisting of a few cities or towns; a petty country governed by a toparch.
adj
Having delegated power, as a vicar; vicarious.
n
in an ecclesiastical context
n
(US, historical) A prominent citizen in New Amsterdam, whose duties spanned across law, education and religion.
n
The territory administered by a zupan.
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