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  2. Confessor - Wikipedia

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    In a number of Christian traditions, including Eastern Orthodoxy, Catholicism, Lutheranism and Anglicanism, a confessor is a priest who hears the confessions of penitents and pronounces absolution. [ 1 ]

  3. List of Confessors - Wikipedia

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    The Confessor (short for Confessor of the Faith) is a title bestowed by some Christian denominations. Those so honored include: Anthony the Confessor (died 844), Eastern Orthodox saint and bishop of Thessaloniki; Basil the Confessor (died 750), Eastern Orthodox saint and monk; Chariton the Confessor, 3rd-4th-century saint

  4. Confessor of the Faith - Wikipedia

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    Confessor of the Faith is a title given by some Christian traditions. In Roman Catholicism and Eastern Orthodoxy , Christians who professed their faith in times of Christian persecution and therefore had to suffer persecution , exile , torture , mutilation and/or imprisonment , but not directly undergo martyrdom , are called confessors ( Latin ...

  5. Seal of confession in the Catholic Church - Wikipedia

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    However, the Catholic Church punishes with excommunication latae sententiae anyone who records by any technical means or divulges what is said by the confessor or penitent. [ 18 ] [ 20 ] There are limited cases where portions of a confession may be revealed to others, but always with the penitent's permission and never by revealing the penitent ...

  6. Edward the Confessor - Wikipedia

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    Edward the Confessor [a] [b] (c. 1003 – 5 January 1066) was an Anglo-Saxon English king and saint. Usually considered the last king of the House of Wessex , he ruled from 1042 until his death in 1066.

  7. Sacrament of Penance - Wikipedia

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    In confession, the church believes, God judges a person in the sense of bringing to light his or her sins, by granting the person the ability to confess his or her sins to the confessor, then grants the person repentance and, through the confessor, grants the person forgiveness. God's forgiveness restores the person to "the brightness of the ...

  8. Pope Martin I - Wikipedia

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    Pope Martin I (Latin: Martinus I, Greek: Πάπας Μαρτῖνος; between 590 and 600 – 16 September 655), also known as Martin the Confessor, was the bishop of Rome from 21 July 649 to his death 16 September 655.

  9. Confiteor - Wikipedia

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    In answer the confessor says almost exactly the Misereatur. [1] The Confiteor is first found quoted as part of the introduction of the Mass in Bernold of Constance (died 1100). The Misereatur and Indulgentiam prayers follow, the former slightly different but the latter exactly as in the Tridentine Missal.