absolution

en-noun

absolution (countable and uncountable, plural absolutions)

From Middle English absolucion, absolucioun, from Old French absolution, from Latin absolūtiōnem, accusative singular of absolūtiō (“acquittal”), from absolvō (“absolve”). See also absolve.

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(ecclesiastical) An absolving of sins from ecclesiastical penalties by an authority.


abstinence

abstinence (countable and uncountable, plural abstinences)

abstinences (plural)
abstinency (alternative)

From Middle English abstinence, from Old French abstinence, from Latin abstinentia, from abstinēns, present participle of abstineō (“I withhold”). Equivalent to abstain + -ence.

"The church teaching before Vatican II was that it was 'gravely sinful' to take 2 ounces of meat on a day of abstinence such as Friday," said the Rev. Joseph S. Rossi, a Jesuit professor of church history at Loyola College.

1995 September 18, Rafael Alvarez, “Catholics asked to avoid eating meat on Fridays Cardinal suggests abstinence in weeks leading up to Pope's visit”, in Baltimore Sun:

The act or practice of abstaining, refraining from indulging a desire or appetite.

(ecclesiastical) Abstention from certain foods on days of penitential observance.


north

north (countable and uncountable, plural norths)

From Middle English north, from Old English norþ, from Proto-West Germanic *norþr, from Proto-Germanic *nurþrą, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *nér (“below (the surface)”). The meaning developed either from "region where the sun is below (the earth)" or from "left side of someone who turns to the east when praying".
Cognate with various Germanic counterparts such as Dutch noord, West Frisian noard, German Nord, Danish and Norwegian nord; also with Greek νέρτερος (nérteros, “infernal, lower”) and Sanskrit नरक (naraka, “hell”)

cog

по́лночь f (pólnočʹ) (obsolete, now means "midnight")

If candidates stand on the liturgical south facing the presider and liturgical assistants on the liturgical north, it will present better visual lines for the congregation than if they stand facing east and west with their backs toward the congregation.

1998, Leonel L. Mitchell, Pastoral and Occasional Liturgies: A Ceremonial Guide, Rowman & Littlefield, →ISBN, page 49:

Many early Christian basilicas were designed with twin ambos for the proclamation of the epistle (on the liturgical south side) and the Gospel (on the north). The separation of the ambos indicated the distinction that should be accorded the Gospel, which was proclaimed from the north as if evangelization needed to happen to the geographically southern part of the world.

2011, Paul Turner, At the Supper of the Lamb: A Pastoral and Theological Commentary on the Mass, LiturgyTrainingPublications, →ISBN, page 27:

At St. Andrew's, ecclesiastical north, south, east, and west correspond to geographical northeast, southwest, southeast, and northwest.

2014, Paul Porwoll, Against All Odds: History of Saint Andrew's Parish Church, Charleston, 1706-2013, WestBow Press, →ISBN, page 365:

The new St Mary's Anglican Church, Walkerville, has an attached rectory flanking to the liturgical south and an attached parish hall flanking to the liturgical north, both half-timbered in the Tudor Revival style. [Referring to a church that is oriented SSE, making "south" WSW]

2017, Cameron Macdonell, Ghost Storeys: Ralph Adams Cram, Modern Gothic Media, and Deconstructive Microhistory at a Canadian Church, McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP, →ISBN:

(ecclesiastical) In a church: the direction to the left-hand side of a person facing the altar.


north

[…] the high church had liked its clergy to preside at the Eucharist in an ad orientem position; the low church advocated what was called the north end position; but the Liturgical Movement asked the priest to take a basilical position, facing liturgical west, and now both Anglican factions could agree on this third position without either of them losing face.

2011, Michael Attridge, Catherine E. Clifford, Gilles Routhier, Vatican II: Expériences canadiennes – Canadian experiences, University of Ottawa Press, →ISBN, page 145:

Throughout the book I refer directionally to the altar and chancel of St. Andrew's as situated at ecclesiastical east (to avoid overcomplicating matters), not geographical or magnetic southeast. Thus, […] The north side faces the river (beyond the subdivision behind the church), and the south side, Ashley River Road. […] At St. Andrew's, ecclesiastical north, south, east, and west correspond to geographical northeast, southwest, southeast, and northwest. Unless otherwise indicated, compass directions given in this book are ecclesiastical, not geographical, reference points.

(ecclesiastical) Designating, or situated in, the liturgical north (in a church, the direction to the left-hand side of a person facing the altar).


east

From Middle English est, from Old English ēast, from Proto-West Germanic *austr, from Proto-Germanic *austrą, from Proto-Indo-European *h₂ewsér (“east”). Compare West Frisian east, Dutch oost, German Ost, Danish øst, Norwegian Nynorsk aust, Swedish öst.

восхо́д m (vosxód) (dated, now means "sunrise")

A few [Anglican churches in South Carolina, Virginia and Maryland] are oriented other than due [geographic] east—St. Paul's, St. George's, and Prince George's parish churches face northeast and St. Andrew's, southeast. […] Throughout the book I refer directionally to the altar and chancel of St. Andrew's as situated at ecclesiastical east (to avoid overcomplicating matters), not geographical or magnetic southeast. Thus, the altar is located at the east end of the church, and the gallery, at the west.

2014 April 11, Paul Porwoll, Against All Odds: History of Saint Andrew's Parish Church, Charleston, 1706–2013, Bloomington, Ind.: WestBow Press, →ISBN, pages 364–365:

However, in Mies' chapel, liturgical east is magnetic west.

2018, Anat Geva, Modernism and American Mid-20th Century Sacred Architecture, Routledge, →ISBN:

The tapestry by Graham Sutherland that occupies the whole wall of the liturgical east and geographic north of the cathedral is recognisable to the point of visual exhaustion.

2019, Sarah Hosking, "Coventry Cathedral", in Prickett Stephen Prickett, Edinburgh Companion to the Bible and the Arts, Edinburgh University Press, →ISBN, page 371:

(ecclesiastical) In a church: the direction of the altar and chancel; the direction faced by the priest when celebrating ad orientem.


east

westward

antonym(s) of “situated or lying in or towards the east”

the east front of a cathedral

Throughout the book I refer directionally to the altar and chancel of St. Andrew's as situated at ecclesiastical east (to avoid overcomplicating matters), not geographical or magnetic southeast. Thus, the altar is located at the east end of the church, and the gallery, at the west.

The tapestry by Graham Sutherland that occupies the whole wall of the liturgical east and geographic north of the cathedral is recognisable […] a huge image of Christ on the [liturgical] east end, filling the entire wall and to be visible through the [liturgical] West Window (Fig. 24.2).

(ecclesiastical) Designating, or situated in, the liturgical east.


south

en-noun

south (countable and uncountable, plural souths)

From Middle English south, from Old English sūþ, from Proto-West Germanic *sunþr, from Proto-Germanic *sunþrą (whence also West Frisian súd, Dutch zuid, German Süd, Danish syd). Ultimately equivalent to sun + -ther (“-ward”).

по́лдень m (póldenʹ) (obsolete, now means "noon")

It is to be situated in the chancel on the right (i.e., liturgical south) side of the church.

2002, John L. Hooker, In the Shadows of Holy Week: The Office of Tenebrae, Church Publishing, Inc., →ISBN:

It was moved from its original location in 1507 hardly a decade after it was completed, to the bottom of the liturgical south aisle along with the free-standing chapel of the relic of the lance.

2009, Carol Mary Richardson, Reclaiming Rome: Cardinals in the Fifteenth Century, BRILL, →ISBN, page 389:

[…] Throughout the book I refer directionally to the altar and chancel of St. Andrew's as situated at ecclesiastical east (to avoid overcomplicating matters), not geographical or magnetic southeast. Thus, […] The north side faces the river (beyond the subdivision behind the church), and the south side, Ashley River Road. […] The pulpit and reading desk are at ecclesiastical northeast, and the organ pipes and 1706 memorial at ecclesiastical south. At St. Andrew's, ecclesiastical north, south, east, and west correspond to geographical northeast, southwest, southeast, and northwest. Unless otherwise indicated, compass directions given in this book are ecclesiastical, not geographical, reference points.

(ecclesiastical) In a church: the direction to the right-hand side of a person facing the altar.


south

Throughout the book I refer directionally to the altar and chancel of St. Andrew's as situated at ecclesiastical east (to avoid overcomplicating matters), not geographical or magnetic southeast. Thus, […] The north side faces the river (beyond the subdivision behind the church), and the south side, Ashley River Road.

(ecclesiastical) Designating, or situated in, the liturgical south.


west

PIE word
 *wek(ʷ)speros
From Middle English west, from Old English west, from Proto-West Germanic *westr, from Proto-Germanic *westrą.
Cognate with Scots wast, Saterland Frisian Wääste, West Frisian west, Dutch west, German West, Danish vest. Cognate also with Old French west, French ouest, Spanish oeste, Portuguese oeste, Catalan oest, Galician oeste, Italian ovest (all ultimately borrowings of the English word). Compare also Latin vesper (“evening”), with which it is possibly cognate via Proto-Indo-European.

захо́д m (zaxód) (dated, now means "sunset")

In two respects, however, the cathedral [of St. Mary's in Sydney, Australia] differs from English traditions: it is oriented north-south, not east-west; and its main entry is from the south (liturgical west) between the two towers, in the French manner.

1997, John Haskell, John Callanan, Sydney Architecture, UNSW Press, →ISBN:

The seating for honored persons (clergy) is at the liturgical west, opposite the entrance and lectern.

2000, Mark L. MacDonald, The Chant of Life: Liturgical Studies Four, Church Publishing, Inc., →ISBN, page 98:

In most worship spaces, this will put the thurifer and gospeller facing liturgical west, book bearer facing liturgical east (or the book on the reading desk), and the torch bearers turned inward, facing the book.

2007, Patrick Malloy, Celebrating the Eucharist: A Practical Ceremonial Guide for Clergy and Other Liturgical Ministers, Church Publishing, Inc., →ISBN, page 155:

(ecclesiastical) In a church: the direction of the gallery, opposite to the altar, and opposite to the direction faced by the priest when celebrating ad orientem.


accentuation

accentuation (countable and uncountable, plural accentuations)

/ˌækˌsɛn.t͡ʃəˈweɪ.ʃən/

/ˌɪkˌsɛn.t͡ʃəˈweɪ.ʃən/

From Late Latin accentuatio. Compare French accentuation. Equivalent to accentuate + -ion.

(ecclesiastical, music) Pitch or modulation of the voice in reciting portions of the liturgy.


ordinary

ordinaries (plural)
ordinarie (alternative obsolete)

/ˈɔɹdɪnɛ(ə)ɹi/

From Anglo-Norman ordenarie, ordenaire et al., Middle French ordinaire, and their source, Medieval Latin ordinarius, noun use of Latin ōrdinārius (“regular, orderly”), from ōrdō (“order”).

A person with authority; authority, ordinance.

(ecclesiastical, law) A person having immediate jurisdiction in a given case of ecclesiastical law, such as the bishop within a diocese.


switch

en-verb

switch (third-person singular simple present switches, present participle switching, simple past and past participle switched)

switches (present singular third-person)
switching (participle present)
switched (participle past)
switched (past)

→ Dutch: switchen

→ German: switchen

Perhaps from Middle Dutch swijch (“twig”), first attested in c. 1592. The mechanical device for altering the direction of something sense is first attested in c. 1797, pertaining to pivoted rails on minecart railways, which were once wooden.

(ecclesiastical) To shift to another circuit.


acephali

From Late Latin, plural of Latin acephalus. See acephal.

(ecclesiastical history) The Eutychians, a Christian sect in the year 482 without a leader. See http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/01100c.htm.

(ecclesiastical history) Bishops and certain clergymen not under regular diocesan control.


corporal

From Middle English corporall, corporalle, from the Latin corporāle, the neuter of corporālis representing the doctrine of transubstantiation in which the Eucharist becomes the body of Christ.

He had […] many corporals, chalice-veils, and sudaria

1891, Oscar Wilde, chapter XI, in The Picture of Dorian Gray, London, New York, N.Y., Melbourne, Vic.: Ward Lock & Co., →OCLC:

(ecclesiastical) The white linen cloth on which the elements of the Eucharist are placed; a communion cloth.

corporal

ecclesiastical: cloth on which the elements of the Eucharist are placed


admission

en-noun

admission (countable and uncountable, plural admissions)

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Borrowed from Latin admissio, admissionis; compare French admission. See admit.

(British, ecclesiastical law) Declaration of the bishop that he approves of the presentee as a fit person to serve the cure of the church to which he is presented.


appropriate

en-verb

appropriate (third-person singular simple present appropriates, present participle appropriating, simple past and past participle appropriated)

appropriates (present singular third-person)
appropriating (participle present)
appropriated (participle past)
appropriated (past)

From Middle English appropriaten, from appropriat (“appropriated”) + -en, borrowed from Latin appropriātus, perfect passive participle of appropriō (“to make one's own”), from ad (“to”) + propriō (“to make one's own”), from proprius (“one's own, private”) + -ō (first conjugation verb-forming suffix).

af

Some [benefices] were appropriated to secular ecclesiastical corporations

176, William Blackstone, Commentaries on the Laws of England, book, Oxford, Oxfordshire: […] Clarendon Press, →OCLC:

(transitive, British, ecclesiastical, law) To annex (for example a benefice, to a spiritual corporation, as its property).


patron

From Middle English patroun, patrone, from Old French patron, from Latin patrōnus, derived from pater (“father”). Doublet of padrone, Patronus, patroon, and pattern.

doublet

(UK, ecclesiastical) One who has gift and disposition of a benefice.


erection

en-noun

erection (countable and uncountable, plural erections)

Borrowed from Latin ērectiō, ērectiōnis, noun of action from perfect passive participle ērectus, from verb erigō, from prefix ē- (“out of”) + regō, + action suffix -iō.

paglatog

physiology: process by which a penis becomes erect

There is some obscurity attaching to the only other one of those alleged erections of parishes, the case of Foot Dee, near Aberdeen.

1842, Patrick Robertson, Stewarton Case: Report of the Pleadings […] , page 43:

If the erection of a society is made with pontifical authority, then the society is one of pontifical legal status from its inception.

1949, Bernard Joseph Ristuccia, Quasi-religious Societies: A Historical Synopsis and a Commentary, page 65:

Concerns for its usefulness to the particular church and the institute should be seriously considered by the diocesan bishop and the major superior before the canonical erection of a house takes place.

2000, Rose M. McDermott, “Canon 610”, in John P. Beal et al., editors, New Commentary on the Code of Canon Law, page 774:

(uncountable or countable, ecclesiastical) Formal approval and official establishment of an institution such as a society or a monastery by higher church authorities.


insufflate

en-verb

insufflate (third-person singular simple present insufflates, present participle insufflating, simple past and past participle insufflated)

insufflates (present singular third-person)
insufflating (participle present)
insufflated (participle past)
insufflated (past)

From the past participle stem of Latin īnsufflāre, from in- + sufflāre (“blow on”).

(transitive, ecclesiastical) To exhale upon baptismal water, or the one being baptised, as a ritual act.


archabbot

(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).

aartsabt

the title of the general superior in certain Catholic congregations


charge

en-noun

charge (countable and uncountable, plural charges)

From Middle English chargen, from Old French chargier, from Late Latin carricō (“to load”), from Latin carrus (“a car, wagon”); see car. Doublet of cargo.

(ecclesiastical) An address given at a church service concluding a visitation.


pectoral

All senses are ultimately from Latin pectorālis, but some may have come through Old French and Middle English.

Pectoral in the Encyclopædia Britannica (11th edition, 1911)

(ecclesiastical) A clasp, cross, or ornamental square of cloth etc. worn upon the breast.


primer

US, irregular, but common; borrowed from Etymology 2

From Middle English primer, primere, from Medieval Latin primarius and primarium (“prayer book”) possibly via Anglo-Norman primer (“prayer book”), from prima (“prime the liturgical hour and office”) + -arius and -arium (suffix forming related objects). Its use for schoolbooks derived from the late medieval and early modern use of such prayer books to teach reading.

nowrap

<i class="Latn mention" lang="la">-arium</i> (suffix forming related objects).

(historical, Catholicism ecclesiastical) A prayer or devotional book intended for laity, initially an abridgment of the breviary and manual including the hours of the Virgin Mary, 15 gradual and 7 penitential psalms, the litany, the placebo and dirige forming the office of the dead, and the commendations.

Book of Common Prayer
Book of Common Prayer

(historical, Protestantism ecclesiastical) Any of various similar works issued in England for private prayer in accordance with the Book of Common Prayer.


pica

en-noun

pica (countable and uncountable, plural picas)

From Medieval Latin pica (“pica: a service book”), possibly from Latin pīca (“magpie”) after the piebald appearance of the typeset page (cf. pie (“disordered type”)). The relation to the printer's measure is unclear, as no edition of the text in pica type is known. The French pica derives from English rather than vice versa.

der

(uncommon, ecclesiastical) A pie or directory: the book directing Roman Catholic observance of saints' days and other feasts under various calendars.


anathema

en-noun

anathema (plural anathemas or anathemata)

Borrowed from Late Latin anathema (“curse, person cursed, offering”), itself a borrowing from Ancient Greek ἀνάθεμα (anáthema, “something dedicated, especially dedicated to eternal damnation”), from ἀνατίθημι (anatíthēmi, “I set upon, offer as a votive gift”), from ἀνά (aná, “upon”) + τίθημι (títhēmi, “I put, place”). The Ancient Greek term was influenced by Hebrew חרם (herem), leading to the sense of "accursed," especially in Ecclesiastical writers.

der

(ecclesiastical, historical) A ban or curse pronounced with religious solemnity by ecclesiastical authority, often accompanied by excommunication; something denounced as accursed.

If any man love not the Lord Jesus Christ, let him be Anathema Maranatha.

1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, 1 Corinthians 16:22:

Ἆνάθεμα, accurẛed, חרם, which the Septuagint renders Anathema, ẛignifies Perẛons or Things devoted to Deẛtruction and Extermination. The Jewiẛh Nation were now an Anathema, deẛtin'd to Deẛtruction. St. Paul to expreẛs his Affection to them, ẛays, he could wiẛh to ẛave them from it, to become an Anathema and be deẛtroy'd himẛelf.

1707, John Locke, “The Epistle of St. Paul to the Romans”, in An Essay for Understanding St. Paul's Epistles, by Consulting St. Paul Himself, Section VIII:

If any one refuses to confess that the Word of God the Father is united in hypostasis to flesh, and is one Christ with His own flesh, the same being at once both God and man, let him be anathema.

1885, “The Anathemas of Cyril in Opposition to Nestorius”, in Philip Schaff, editor, Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers (II), volume III:

(ecclesiastical) Any person or thing anathematized, or cursed by ecclesiastical authority to unending punishment.


fascia

en-noun

fascia (plural fascias or fasciae or fasciæ)

fascias (plural)
fasciae (plural)
fasciæ (plural)

Borrowed from Latin fascia (“a band, bandage, swathe”). Related to fascēs (“bundle of rods containing an axe with the blade projecting”), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰask- (“bundle, band”). Cognate with fajita, fess, and fascism.

der

(ecclesiastical, fashion) A sash worn by certain members of the Catholic and Anglican churches.


convocation

en-noun

convocation (countable and uncountable, plural convocations)

From Middle English convocacioun, from Old French convocation, from Latin convocatio, convocationem.

Convocation will sit in York too, so the northern church can have its say in how we worship God.

2020, Hilary Mantel, The Mirror and the Light, Fourth Estate, page 409:

(ecclesiastical) An assembly of the clergy, by their representatives, to consult on ecclesiastical affairs.


adultery

adultery (countable and uncountable, plural adulteries)

With change of suffix, from the Old French adultere (“violation of conjugal faith”) (in Bernard of Clairvaux, Sermons, 12c.), a learnèd borrowing from Latin adulterium, from adulterō. Replaced the older form avoutrie, from the inherited Old French forms avouterie or aoulterie, while keeping its suffix. Compare French adultère (“adultery”). Displaced Old English ǣwbryċe. Not related to adult.

(ecclesiastical) The intrusion of a person into a bishopric during the life of the bishop.


institute

en-verb

institute (third-person singular simple present institutes, present participle instituting, simple past and past participle instituted)

institutes (present singular third-person)
instituting (participle present)
instituted (participle past)
instituted (past)

From Middle English, from Latin īnstitūtus, past participle of īnstituō (“I set up, place upon, purpose, begin, institute”), from in (“in, on”) + statuō (“set up, establish”).

a writ issued to the bishop, to institute the clerk of that patron

1765–1769, William Blackstone, Commentaries on the Laws of England, (please specify |book=I to IV), Oxford, Oxfordshire: […] Clarendon Press, →OCLC:

(ecclesiastical, law) To invest with the spiritual charge of a benefice, or the care of souls.


beadle

beadles (plural)
bedel (alternative obsolete)
bedell (alternative obsolete)
bedral (alternative Scotland)
bethral (alternative Scotland)
betherel (alternative Scotland)

From Middle English bedel, bidel, from Old English bydel (“warrant officer, apparitor”), from Proto-West Germanic *budil, from Proto-Germanic *budilaz (“herald”), equivalent to bid + -le. Cognate with Dutch beul, German Büttel. More at bid.

inh

(Scotland, ecclesiastical) An attendant to the minister.


trigamy

en-noun

trigamy (countable and uncountable, plural trigamies)

From Ancient Greek τρίγαμος (trígamos), from τρία (tría, “three”) + γάμος (gámos, “marriage”). By surface analysis, tri- + -gamy.


bigamy

bigamy (countable and uncountable, plural bigamies)

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From Middle English bigamie (“having two spouses simultaneously, bigamy; second marriage; marrying a widow or widower”) [and other forms], from Anglo-Norman bigamie and Middle French bigamie (“having two spouses simultaneously; second marriage; marrying a widow or widower”) (modern French bigamie (“bigamy”)), and its etymon Late Latin bigamia (“having two spouses simultaneously; second marriage”), from Late Latin, Latin bigamus (“bigamous”) + -ia (variant of -ius (suffix forming adjectives from nouns)). Bigamus is derived from bis (“twice, two times”) + Ancient Greek γάμος (gámos, “marriage; matrimony”) (from Proto-Indo-European *ǵem- (“to marry”)). The English word is analysable as bi- + -gamy.

der

Bigamie was a counterplea (deuiſed at yͤ Councell of Lyons, vpon mislike of ſecond marriage) to be obiected, when the priſoner demaundeth the benefite of the Clergie, to wit, his Book, as namely to ſay, that he which demaundeth the priuiledge of the Clergie, was married to ſuch a woman at ſuch a place, within ſuch a Dioceſſe, and that ſhee is dead, and that hee hath married another woman within the ſame Dioceſſe, or within ſome other Dioceſſe, and ſo is Bigamus.

1624, [John Rastell], “Bigamie”, in Les Termes de la Ley: Or, Certaine Difficult and Obscure VVords and Termes of the Common Lawes of This Realme Expounded. […], new edition, London: […] Company of Stationers, →OCLC, folio 45, recto and verso:

(ecclesiastical law, historical) A second marriage after the death of a spouse.


plurality

en-noun

plurality (countable and uncountable, plural pluralities)

singularity

antonym(s) of “state of being more than one”

From plural + -ity, from Middle English pluralite, from Old French pluralité (“multitude, state of being plural”), from Latin plūrālitās.

der

It was the complaint and lamentation of Prelats, upon every least breath of a motion to remove pluralities, and distribute more equally Church revennu's, that then all learning would be for ever dasht and discourag'd.

(ecclesiastical) The holding of multiple benefices.

useamman kirkkoherranviran pitäminen

ecclesiastical: the holding of multiple benefices


privilege

en-noun

privilege (countable and uncountable, plural privileges)

privileges (plural)
priviledg (alternative)
priviledge (alternative)

From Middle English privilege, from Anglo-Norman privilege and Old French privilege, from Latin prīvilēgium (“ordinance or law against or in favor of an individual”), from prīvus (“private”) + lēx, lēg- (“law”).

der

(ecclesiastical law, now chiefly historical) An exemption from certain laws granted by the Pope.


ecumenical

en-adj

ecumenical (comparative more ecumenical, superlative most ecumenical)

more ecumenical (comparative)
most ecumenical (superlative)
œcumenical (alternative)
oecumenical (alternative)

From ecumenic + -al. By surface analysis, ecumene + -ical.

Within Europe, the church's ecumenical partnerships have demonstrated that ecclesial unity may have political resonances.

1999 June 5, Martyn Percy, “St Albion's Utd”, in The Guardian, London, retrieved 2022-01-29:

Nicaea has always been regarded as one of the milestones in the history of the Church, and reckoned as the first council to be styled ‘general’ or ‘oecumenical’.

2009, Diarmaid MacCulloch, A History of Christianity: The First Three Thousand Years, Penguin, published 2010, page 215:

Rather touchingly, an ecumenical mass of reparation for the victims of the massacres was held on October 29, in the very English village of Great Missenden in Buckinghamshire. The service was led by the Catholic bishop of Northampton, with Archbishop Metropolitan Stres from Ljubljana and the Anglican bishop of Buckingham.

2010 October 30, “Britain's Ancient Shame in Slovenia”, in The Economist, London:

(ecclesiastical) Pertaining to the universal Church, representing the entire Christian world; interdenominational; sometimes by extension, interreligious.

ekumenies

ecclesiastical: pertaining to the Christian Church in a worldwide sense


devotion

en-noun

devotion (usually uncountable, plural devotions)

From Old French devocion, from Latin dēvōtiō, from dēvōtum + -tio, from the supine of dēvoveō (“vow, devote”); equivalent to devote + -ion.

(countable, ecclesiastical) A prayer (often found in the plural)


Mar.

(ecclesiastical, title) Abbreviation of Master.


procession

From Middle English processioun, borrowed from Old French pourciession, from Latin prōcessiō (“a marching forward, an advance, in Late Latin a religious procession”), from prōcēdere, past participle prōcessus (“to move forward, advance, proceed”); see proceed.

der

In many a form I see thee oft
In myriad manners are thy praises told
In old processions carved on Grecian urns

(ecclesiastical, obsolete, in the plural) Litanies said in procession and not kneeling.


collation

en-noun

collation (countable and uncountable, plural collations)

From Middle English collacioun, collation, from Old French collation, from Latin collatiō, from the participle stem of cōnferō (“to bring together”).

(ecclesiastical) The presentation of a clergyman to a benefice by a bishop, who has it in his own gift.

(ecclesiastical) Presentation to a benefice.


indispensable

en-adj

indispensable (comparative more indispensable, superlative most indispensable)

more indispensable (comparative)
most indispensable (superlative)

Borrowed from Middle French indispensable, from Medieval Latin indispensābilis, corresponding to in- + dispensable.

bor+

(ecclesiastical, obsolete) Not admitting ecclesiastical dispensation; not subject to release or exemption; that cannot be allowed by bending the canonical rules.


crimen

en-noun

crimen (countable and uncountable, plural crimina)

Unadapted borrowing from Latin crīmen (“verdict; adultery; crime”). Doublet of crime.

ubor

1884, The Irish Ecclesiastical Record, 3rd Series, Volume V, page 416,
Such presumptions are common in connection with crimen and affinity.

2006, Fellowship of Catholic Scholars Quarterly, Volumes 29-30, Fellowship of Catholic Scholars, page 7,
Third, some might think that Michael avoids the impediment of crimen because a civil court approved his petition to deprive Terri of nutrition and hydration.

Coordinate term: conjugicide

(law, ecclesiastical law) An impediment to Catholic marriage due to a conspiracy to murder or a death of a previous spouse.


archbishopric

/ɑːt͡ʃˈbɪʃəpɹɪk/

/ɑɹt͡ʃˈbɪʃəpɹɪk/

From Middle English erchebischopriche, from Old English arċebisċeoprīce, arċebisċoprīċe, equivalent to archbishop + -ric.

A bishop of Bath […] was considered after due reflection to be an unsuitable man for the Archbishopric, because he had too many illegitimate children—not some, but too many.

1958, T. H. White, The Once and Future King, New York: Putnam, Book 4, Chapter 3, p. 563:

(ecclesiastical) The rank or office of an archbishop.

St. Salvadore in the Bahia los todos Santos, is an Archbishoprick and Seat of the Viceroy, the chief Port of Trade for Importation […]

1724, Daniel Defoe, chapter 11, in A General History of the Pyrates, London: T. Warner, page 213:

(ecclesiastical) The jurisdiction of an archbishop.


ferial

From Middle English ferial, from Medieval Latin fēriālis, from Latin fēria (“weekday”) (whence the first sense), fēriae (“holidays”) (whence the second).

(ecclesiastical) Pertaining to an ordinary weekday, rather than a festival or fast.


presentable

en-adj

presentable (comparative more presentable, superlative most presentable)

more presentable (comparative)
most presentable (superlative)

From Middle French presentable, from Old French, as if present + -able.

(ecclesiastical) Capable of being presented to a church living.


archdiocesan

/ˌɑɹt͡ʃˌdaɪˈɑsɪsən/

(ecclesiastical) Of or relating to an archdiocese.


pluralism

en-noun

pluralism (countable and uncountable, plural pluralisms)

(ecclesiastical) The state of a pluralist; the holding of more than one ecclesiastical living at a time.


cross-staff

cross-staff (plural cross-staffs or cross-staves)

cross-staffs (plural)
cross-staves (plural)

(ecclesiastical, obsolete) A archbishop's cross.


defensor

defensors (plural)
defensour (alternative obsolete)

(ecclesiastical) the patron of a church; an officer having charge of the temporal affairs of a church


coadjutor

/kəʊəˈd͡ʒuːtə/

/kəʊˈæd͡ʒʊtə/

From Old French coadjutor, borrowed from Late Latin coadiūtōrem.

When old age rendered any Bishop unable to perform his duties, the first example of which occurs AD 211, when Alexander became coadjutor to Narcissus at Jerusalem

1842, John Henry Newman, The Ecclesiastical History of M. L'abbé Fleury:

August then appointed Prince George III of Anhalt (who was both a theologian and a priest as well as a prince) to be his coadjutor in spiritual matters.

2005, James Martin Estes, Peace, Order and the Glory of God:

(ecclesiastical) An assistant to a bishop.


presentment

presentment (countable and uncountable, plural presentments)

From Anglo-Norman presentment, presentement, Middle French presentement, corresponding to present + -ment.

He recognised that there was general resentment of the oppressive conduct of the Forest officers, and made provision for regular inquiries into it, and for presentment of Forest offences to be made at the attachment courts, as a procedure preliminary to the Forest Eyre.

1991, Raymond Grant, The Royal Forests of England, Alan Sutton:

(ecclesiastical law) A formal complaint submitted to a bishop or archdeacon.


endura

From New Latin endūra, from Old Occitan endurar (“to fast, endure”).

There was a particularly horrible travesty of extreme unction called the ‘endura’.

1942, Rebecca West, Black Lamb and Grey Falcon, Canongate, published 2006, page 173:

Guillemette was consoled by the Good Men and went through the endura, the Cathars' purifying death-fast.

2000, René Weis, The Yellow Cross, Penguin, published 2001, page 60:

(ecclesiastical history) A fast or series of privations undertaken by the Cathars to purify the soul, often resulting in death.


archepiscopal

A deep snow was falling; and the wind which drove it heavily against the casements of the archepiscopal palace was roaring in the wide chimney,[…].

1847, Julia Perdoe, Louis the Fourteenth: And the Court of France in the Seventeenth Century, volume 3, page 167:

Important pieces of evidence point to the intensified activities of the archepiscopal curia's criminal forum.

1996, Michele Mancino, “5: Ecclesiastical Justice and the Counter-Reformation: Notes on the Diocesan Criminal Court of Naples”, in Eric Arthur Johnson, Eric H. Monkkonen, editors, The Civilization of Crime: Violence in Town and Country Since the Middle Ages, page 131:

Johannes Magnus, Brask's protégé, won the archepiscopal sweepstakes at the expense of Master Knut, Sunnanväder's candidate.

2010, James L. Larson, Reforming the North: The Kingdoms and Churches of Scandinavia, 1520–1545, page 177:

(ecclesiastical) Of or pertaining to an archbishop or an archbishopric.


lection

lection (countable and uncountable, plural lections)

Borrowed from Old French lection, from Latin lēctiōnem, form of lēctiō, from legō (“I read, I gather”). Doublet of lesson.

This man […] came to dwell in our city, and here founded this holy house, and he hath edified us by his litanies and his lections of the Koran.

1885, Richard Burton, The Book of the Thousand Nights and One Night, Night 13:

(ecclesiastical) A reading of a religious text; a lesson to be read in church etc.


Hesychast

From Medieval Latin hesychasta, from ecclesiastical Greek ἡσυχαστής (hēsukhastḗs), from ἡσυχάζειν (hēsukházein, “to be quiet”), from ἥσυχος (hḗsukhos, “quiet”).

(ecclesiastical history) A monk of the Orthodox Catholic Church that engages in noetic prayer.


ecclesia

From Latin ecclēsia, from Ancient Greek ἐκκλησία (ekklēsía). Doublet of Eccles.

(ecclesiastical) A church, either as a body or as a building.


advowson

From Middle English avowson, from Anglo-Norman avouson, from Latin advocātiō. Doublet of advocation.

The advowson of the parsonages of Sempringham and Tirington, being the right of his father, he [St. Gilbert] was presented by him [his father] to those united livings, in 1123.

1866, Rev. Alban Butler, chapter IV, in The Lives of the Saints, volume II (February):

Advowson is the right to appoint the incumbent clergy of a parish, so three advowsons meant three incumbents.

2017, Ben Aaronovitch, The Furthest Station, Gollancz, page 88:

(UK, ecclesiastical law) The right to present a nominee to a vacant ecclesiastical benefice or church office.


antependium

antependium (plural antependiums or antependia)

antependiums (plural)
antependia (plural)

From Latin ante (“before”) + pendere (“to hang”).

(ecclesiastical) The hangings or screen in front of the altar; an altar cloth; the frontal.


bullantic

(ecclesiastical) Pertaining to, or used in, papal bulls.


bullary

From Late Latin bullarium: compare French bullairie.

(ecclesiastical) A collection of papal bulls.


burse

Borrowed from Middle French bourse, from Old French borse, from Latin bursa, from Ancient Greek βύρσα (búrsa). Doublet of purse, compare French bourse (“purse, fund”).

(ecclesiastical) An ornamental case to hold the corporal when not in use.


chimere

From Middle French chimarre, from Spanish zamarra. Cognate with French chamarre, simarre, Italian zimarra, of same origin. Doublet of simar, sable, and zimarra.

(ecclesiastical) The upper robe worn by some bishops of the Anglican communion, usually without sleeves.


chrismation

chrismation (countable and uncountable, plural chrismations)

The Church opposed burning people who had received the myron of chrismation in the baptism ritual.

(ecclesiastical) The sacrament of applying chrism to complete baptism in the Orthodox and Eastern Catholic churches.

(ecclesiastical) In general, the act of applying chrism, or consecrated oil.


Independency

(ecclesiastical history) The principle that each individual religious congregation is free from any external ecclesiastical control, as by a bishop.


archbishophood

/ɑːtʃˈbɪʃəphʊd/

(ecclesiastical) The rank of archbishop; the state of being an archbishop.


horary

From Medieval Latin hōrārius, from Latin hōra (“hour”).

(rare, ecclesiastical) A book containing the divine offices for the various canonical hours.


archabbey

(ecclesiastical) An abbey which is the seat of an archabbot (high monastic rank within an order or congregation)


presentative

en-adj

presentative (comparative more presentative, superlative most presentative)

more presentative (comparative)
most presentative (superlative)

The adjective is derived from Late Latin praesentativus (“that presents for consideration”) + English -ive (suffix signifying belonging or relating to, of the nature of, serving to, or tending to, forming adjectives). Praesentativus is from Latin praesentātus (“presented, exhibited, or shown”) + -īvus (suffix forming adjectives); while praesentātus is the perfect passive participle of praesentō (“to present, exhibit, or show”), from praesēns (“at hand, present; existing; immediate; prompt; propitious; (grammar) present”) (the present active participle of praesum (“to be before something; to be in charge of; to command, lead; to preside or rule over”), from prae- (prefix meaning ‘before, in front; in charge’) (ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *preh₂- (“before; in front”)) + sum (“to be, exist, have”) (ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *h₁es- (“to be”))) + -tō (frequentative suffix). The English word is analysable as present + -ative.
The noun sense (“construct that serves to present something, or draw it to the attention of the interlocutor”) is derived from adjective sense 3 (“serving to present something, or draw it to the attention of the interlocutor”).

der

Mrs. Ellen Gulſton, Relict of Theodore Gulſton, Doctor of Phyſick, a very Learned Man, being poſſeſſed of the Impropriate Parſonage of Bardvvell in Suffolk, did firſt procure from the King leave to annex the ſame to the Vicarage, and to make it Preſentative; and having formerly the Donation of the Vicarage, ſhe gave them both thus annexed freely to St. John’s College in Oxon: Expreſſing many Godly Reaſons in a pious Letter of her Grant, to advance the Glory of God to her Povver, &c.

1704, Henry Spelman, “An Account of the Worth of This Treatise, Taken Out of the Epistle to Sir Henry Spelman’s History of Tythes”, in De Non Temerandis Ecclesiis, Churches Not to Be Violated. A Tract of the Rights and Respects Due unto Churches. […], 6th edition, London: […] Awnsham and John Churchill, […]; republished in Two Tracts […], London: […] Awnsham and John Churchill, […], 1704, →OCLC:

Advowsons are also either preſentative, collative, or donative. An advowſon preſentative is where the patron hath a right of preſentation to the biſhop or ordinary, and moreover to demand of him to inſtitute his clerk, if he finds him canonically qualified: and this is the moſt uſual advowſon.

1766, William Blackstone, “Of Incorporeal Hereditaments”, in Commentaries on the Laws of England, book II (Of the Rights of Things), Oxford, Oxfordshire: […] Clarendon Press, →OCLC, page 22:

(ecclesiastical law) Of a benefice, or the advowsons, tithes, etc., associated with a benefice: that a patron has the right to present.


primatial

The Inquisition even ruined the career of Bartolomé Carranza, Archbishop of Spain's primatial see of Toledo, and a distinguished Dominican theologian.

2009, Diarmaid MacCulloch, A History of Christianity, Penguin, published 2010, page 672:

(ecclesiastical) Of or pertaining to a primate.


avowry

en-noun

avowry (countable and uncountable, plural avowries)

From Middle English avouerie, avourie, from Old French avoerie, avouerie.

But it is as plain that before those Statuts, if the Rectors of two Churches of severall Auowries, had controuerted the right of a fourth part (or of the value of either of their Churches more) in Tithes, by suit commenced in the spirituall Court, the Patron of the Rector-defendant might haue had an Indicauit, to prohibit the prosecution and holding of the Plea. […] [Bracton] mentions no Writ of right of Aduowson of Tithes that should follow.

1618, John Selden, The Historie of Tithes […], page 428:

[…] there is a reference to the Charter, and an enactment again, that as to those ecclesiastical dignities, which were of the avowry of the Crown, that the elections should be free, saving the rights of the Crown as the patron and founder of those benefices.

1840 June 11, William Follett, edited by Ralph Barnes, Report of the Case of The Queen v. The President and Chapter of the Cathedral Church of St. Peter, in Exeter, […], published 1841, page 55:

We have a further recital of previous legislation (35 Edward I.) showing that the Pope in detriment to the advowry of people of Holy Church had been in the habit of disposing of archbishoprics, bishoprics, abbeys, priories, and benefices, and reserving the first fruits for himself, […]

1873, John Henry MacMahon, Church and State in England; Its Origin and Use, page 149:

(ecclesiastical) Advowson, the right to appoint to a benefice or office.


collative

From the Latin collātīvus (“brought together, collected, joint”). Compare the French collatif.

uder

(ecclesiastical, of a benefice) In which the ordinary (or bishop) is the same person as the patron.

collatif

of a benefice: in which the ordinary and the patron are the same person


donative

From Latin dōnātīvum (“a gratuity”), from dōnō (“I give [a present]”), from dōnum (“gift”).

(ecclesiastical law) A benefice conferred on a person by the founder or patron, without either presentation or institution by the ordinary, or induction by his orders.


oeconomus

From Latin oeconomus, from Ancient Greek οἰκονόμος (oikonómos), from οἶκος (oîkos, “house”) + νόμος (nómos, “law, rule”).

(ecclesiastical) A married priest (chiefly Orthodox Christian and Uniate usage), as opposed to a hieromonk.

(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.


sindon

en-noun

sindon (countable and uncountable, plural sindons)

From Latin sindōn (possibly by way of Old French syndone and sindone), from Ancient Greek σινδών (sindṓn), from Late Egyptian šndy(t), from earlier šnḏwt (“kilt”).

(obsolete or historical) A piece of such cloth, particularly

(ecclesiastical) The shroud of Jesus following the crucifixion.

(ecclesiastical) The corporal: the cloth placed beneath the eucharist.


zelatrix

zelatrix (plural zelatrices or zelatrixes)

Learned borrowing from Latin zēlātrīx (“female zealot; zealous female”). By surface analysis, zelator + -trix.

lbor

An intelligent and active zelatrix should be at the head of each circle, or one zelatrix may have several circles under her care.

1871, Jean Lyonnard, Perpetual Intercession to the Agonizing Heart of Jesus, Thomas Richardson and Son, Chapter XVIII, page 171

But, we still have to ask what benefits Teresa herself perceived in the chapter of faults and other similar corrective measures: the role of the zelatrix or monitor for instance?

2000, Ruth Burrows, Carmel: Interpreting A Great Tradition, →ISBN, page 88:

(ecclesiastical) A nun who oversees the behavior of young nuns.


anteportico

(ecclesiastical architecture)An outer porch or vestibule.


archprelate

(ecclesiastical) An archbishop or other chief prelate.


primatical

en-adj

primatical (comparative more primatical, superlative most primatical)

more primatical (comparative)
most primatical (superlative)

Before I proceed any further I ſhall briefly dravv ſome Corollaries from this Hiſtorical account vvhich I have given of the original and grovvth of Metropolitical, Primatical, and Patriarchal Juriſdiction.

a. 1678 (date written), Isaac Barrow, “[The V. [Supposition] that the Bishops of Rome (According to God’s Institution and by Original Right Derived thence) should have an Universal Supremacy and Jurisdiction over the Christian Church]”, in J[ohn] Tillotson, editor, A Treatise of the Pope’s Supremacy. […], London: […] Miles Flesher, for Brabazon Aylmer, […], published 1680, →OCLC, page 255:

(ecclesiastical, archaic) Of or pertaining to a primate (the church thing, not the monkeys).


archiepiscopality

Offa being dead , down fell the best pillar of Lichfield church , to support the archiepiscopality thereof

1655, Thomas Fuller, The Church-history of Britain; […], London: […] Iohn Williams […], →OCLC, (please specify |book=I to XI):

(ecclesiastical, archaic) The rank or dignity of an archbishop; archbishopric.


archpresbytery

“The government of their kirk we despised” not, but their imposing of that government upon us; not presbytery, but archpresbytery, classical, provincial, and diocesan presbytery, claiming to itself a lordly power and superintendency both over flocks and pastors, over persons and congregations no way their own.

1649 October, John Milton, chapter XIII, in Eikonoklastes. In Answer to a Book Intitled, Eikon Basilike, The PORTRAITURE of his SACRED MAJESTY in his Solitudes and Sufferings:

(ecclesiastical) The absolute dominion of presbytery.


archierey

Borrowed from Russian архиере́й (arxijeréj), from Ancient Greek.

the eparchial archiereys, under whose authority the schools

1802, Charles François Philibert Masson, Secret Memoirs of the Court of Petersburg:

(ecclesiastical) The higher order of clergy in Russia, including metropolitans, archbishops, and bishops.


archiepiscopacy

(ecclesiastical) The form of episcopacy in which the chief power is in the hands of archbishops.

‘Though there are no Auto-da-Fés in Lima now,’ said one of the company to another; ‘I fear our sailor friend runs risk of the archiepiscopacy. Let us withdraw more out of the moonlight. […]’

1851 November 14, Herman Melville, “'”, in Moby-Dick; or, The Whale, 1st American edition, New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers; London: Richard Bentley, →OCLC, page 292:

(ecclesiastical) The position or dignity of an archbishop.


apocrisiarius

/ˌæpəˌkɹɪziˈɛəɹi.əs/

/ˌæpəˌkɹɪziˈɛɹi.əs/

Latin apocrisiarius, apocrisarius, from Ancient Greek ἀπόκρισις (apókrisis, “separation, answer, embassy or commission”).

uder

(historical, ecclesiastical) A high diplomatic representative, approximately equivalent to a papal nuncio.

apocrisiaire

a high diplomatic ecclesiastical representative


Low Sunday

Likely in contrast to the solemnity of the preceding Easter Sunday.

(ecclesiastical) The Sunday following Easter.


White Sunday

Calque of Ecclesiastical Latin Dominica in Albīs, itself a contraction of Dominica in Albīs dēpōnendīs or dēpositīs, “Sunday for putting away the white things”, i.e. the white robe of baptism traditionally received by those newly baptised at Easter. Doublet of Whitsunday.


soulscot

en-noun

soulscot (countable and uncountable, plural soulscots)

soulscots (plural)
soul-scot (alternative)
soul-shot (alternative)

From Middle English saulesoth, *soulescot, from sāwolsċeatt (“an ecclesiastical due, to be paid for every deceased person to the clergy of the church to which he belonged, in consideration of the services performed by them in his behalf”), equivalent to soul + scot.

O, by my soulscot, I do love to tell My stories with the haste I often count, At drowsy night, my Paternoster belt.

1839, J. F. Pennie, Britain's Historical Drama:

He will pay his brotherhood yearly, and soulscot on the death of a brother or sister, except for reason of poverty; […]

1955, J. W. F. Hill, Tudor & Stuart Lincoln, page 32:

The vagaries of the records bar any firm calculation of membership figures – especially as receipts include money for 'soulscot', presumably made on behalf of the dead.

2007, R. N. Swanson, Indulgences in Late Medieval England:

[…] churchscot, a render paid annually in grain; lightscot, candles or oil for lighting church lamps; plough-alms, assessed at a penny per plough; and soulscot, a payment in return for burial in a church graveyard.

2010, Joyce Tally Lionarons, The Homiletic Writings of Archbishop Wulfstan:

(ecclesiastical law, historical) A funeral payment, formerly made at the grave, usually to the parish priest in whose church service for the departed had been said; a mortuary.


archbishopdom

From Middle English *archebischopdom, from Old English arċebisċopdōm (“archiepiscopal dignity; archbishopric”), equivalent to archbishop + -dom.

inh

… some call it the sacrament of priesthood, of bishopdom, or of archbishopdom, …

1855, A general index to the publications of the Parker Society - Page 567

In the not too distant past Salzburg had been an Archbishopdom ruled by her archbishops.

1982, Josefa Nina Lieberman, He came to Cambridge, Beaumont:

The fines of 120 Mark remained unpaid, as the principals were said to have refused. One can understand that the three agents fled into the adjacent archbishopdom where they could not be reached by the guardians of Riga's law.

1995, Erik Tiberg, Moscow, Livonia and the Hanseatic League: 1487-1550 - Page 191:

(ecclesiastical) The realm, sphere, domain, office, or jurisdiction of an archbishop; archbishopric.


read oneself in

en-verb

read oneself in (third-person singular simple present reads oneself in, present participle reading oneself in, simple past and past participle read oneself in)

reads oneself in (present singular third-person)
reading oneself in (participle present)
read oneself in (participle past)
read oneself in (past)

Parson Tyll was a curate of one parish across the Strood and of the two on the island. The rector was non-resident, on the plea of the unsalubrity of the spot. He had held the rectory of one parish and the vicarage of the other thirty years, and during that period had visited his cures twice, once to read himself in, and on the other occasion to exact some tithes denied him.

1920, Sabine Baring-Gould, Mehalah: a story of the salt marshes, Chapter 11:

(ecclesiastical, Anglicanism, dated, idiomatic) To read aloud the Thirty-nine Articles and the Declaration of Assent; required of a clergyman of the Church of England when he first officiates in a new benefice.


erenagh

Borrowed from Old Irish airchinnech, from Proto-Celtic *ɸare-kʷenno- (“extremity, end”); see *kʷennom (“head”).

der

(Ireland, history, ecclesiastical) The head of a clan occupying church lands under a bishop in Gaelic Ireland.


erenaghy

If the clan in which the erenaghy was vested became extinct, the bishop could not keep the lands in his own hands but must instal a new erenagh family

1973 Kenneth Nicholls, Gaelic and Gaelicised Ireland in the Middle Ages, Gill and Macmillan, ISBN 7171 0561 X p.113

(Ireland, history, ecclesiastical) the office of erenagh


duplex querela

(Christianity, ecclesiastical law) A complaint in the nature of an appeal from the ordinary to his immediate superior, as from a bishop to an archbishop.


antibishop

antibishops (plural)
anti-bishop (alternative)

18th-century back-formation by analogy with antipope, from anti- + bishop.

(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.]


apocrisarius

apocrisarii (plural)
apocrisiarius (alternative)

/ˌæpəkɹɪˈsɛəɹi.əs/

/ˌæpəkɹəˈsɛɹi.əs/

(ecclesiastical) A high-ranking ecclesiastical deputy or other official


archpriesthood

[Y]et Philoſophers I cannot call them, reported men factious and ambitious, contending ſomtimes about the archprieſthood not without civil Warr and ſlaughter; […]

1670, John Milton, “The Second Book”, in The History of Britain, that Part Especially now Call’d England. […], London: […] J[ohn] M[acock] for James Allestry, […] , →OCLC, page 49:

(ecclesiastical) The office of an archpriest.


abegha

Armenian Apostolic Church
Armenian Apostolic Church

(ecclesiastical) A celibate priest or monk of the Armenian Apostolic Church; a hieromonk.

աբեղա

a celibate priest or monk of the Armenian Apostolic Church


Holy Bible

the Holy Bible (canonical)
Holy Bibles (plural)

(ecclesiastical) Honorific name for the collection of the books of the Bible according to a Christian canon.

(ecclesiastical) Honorific name for a book containing the books of the Bible according to a Christian canon.


incardination

en-noun

incardination (countable and uncountable, plural incardinations)

(ecclesiastical) The act of incardinating.


Latrocinium

From Latin latrocinium (“act of brigandage; an illegitimate church council”). Doublet of larceny.

bor

But the whole circumstances of the Latrocinium, where everything was done to degrade Constantinople by Dioscurus, render it impossible to attach any weight to a statement of this kind ...

1912, Edward Denny, Papalism: A treatise on the claims of the papacy as set forth in the encyclical Satis Cognitum, page 638:

The business of the Council of Chalcedon was to reverse the proceedings of the Latrocinium ...

1936, Cuthbert Turner, “The Organization of the Church”, in The Cambridge Medieval History, Vol. I: The Christian Roman Empire and the Foundation of the Teutonic Kingdoms, page 175:

This was all the more significant because the victors at the Latrocinium were surprisingly slow in following up their advantage in Constantinople.

1979, Timothy E. Gregory, Vox Populi: Popular Opinion and Violence in the Religious Controversies of the Fifth Century A.D., page 151:

(historical, ecclesiastical, derogatory) The Second Council of Ephesus.


pseudocardinal

pseudocardinals (plural)
pseudo-cardinal (alternative)

Other writers […] conclude that[…] Gregory remained long enough not only to be reinstated at the Lateran palace, but also to reform certain flagrant abuses, and order the expulsion of pseudo-cardinals nominated by the Antipope.

1869, Charles Isidore Hemans, A History of Mediaeval Christianity and Sacred Art in Italy: A.D. 900-1350, page 119:

It owes its origin to the schism which Alexander V. attempted to heal in 1409 by forming one body of his own (the legitimate) and of the pseudocardinals of the anti-pope Benedict XIII.

At the same time, however, he instructed his envoys to Paris to explain to the dukes that cession without a determination of rights could lead to something far worse than schism, namely ‘to adore an idol on earth’ — a pope elected by pseudo-cardinals.

1995, Timothy Reuter, The New Cambridge Medieval History: Volume 6, C.1300-c.1415, Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, page 688:

He was created cardinal by Antipope Felix V, thus he would be considered by some as a ‘pseudocardinal’ […]

2013, Franz Posset, Marcus Marulus and the Biblia Latina of 1489: An Approach to His Biblical Hermeneutics, →ISBN, page 26:

Frederick warned Hugh not to receive the former papal chancellor, who was an enemy of the Reich, his pseudo-cardinals, or any of his envoys[…]

2016 January 1, John B. Freed, Frederick Barbarossa: The Prince and the Myth, Yale University Press, →ISBN, page 304:

According to the vita, Ursulina was readily received by the “antipope,” having been aided by an introduction from the “pseudocardinal” Pierre du Puy. The pope received her alone, and she threatened him with hell unless he abdicated.

2017, Yvonne Friedman, Religion and Peace: Historical Aspects, Routledge, →ISBN:

(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.


lectional

(ecclesiastical) Of or relating to a lection.


Consistorialrath

Consistorialraths (plural)
Consistorialrat (alternative)
consistorialrath (alternative)

Borrowed from German Consistorialrath, obsolete spelling of Konsistorialrat.

For quotations using this term, see Citations:Consistorialrath.

(historical, ecclesiastical) councillor of the consistory

(historical, ecclesiastical) consistory council


anticardinal

(historical, ecclesiastical) Synonym of pseudocardinal.


chrismate

en-verb

chrismate (third-person singular simple present chrismates, present participle chrismating, simple past and past participle chrismated)

chrismates (present singular third-person)
chrismating (participle present)
chrismated (participle past)
chrismated (past)

(ecclesiastical, transitive) To anoint; to perform the sacrament of chrismation upon.