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  2. Holy orders in the Catholic Church - Wikipedia

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    In the phrase "holy orders", the word "holy" means "set apart for a sacred purpose". The word "order" designates an established civil body or corporation with a hierarchy, and ordination means legal incorporation into an order. In context, therefore, a group with a hierarchical structure that is set apart for ministry in the Church.

  3. Holy orders - Wikipedia

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    Ordination to the Catholic priesthood in the Latin Church. Devotional card, 1925. The ministerial orders of the Catholic Church include the orders of bishops, deacons and presbyters, which in Latin is sacerdos. [4] The ordained priesthood and common priesthood (or priesthood of all the baptized) are different in function and essence. [5]

  4. Religious order (Catholic) - Wikipedia

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    A religious order is characterized by an authority structure where a superior general has jurisdiction over the order's dependent communities. An exception is the Order of Saint Benedict which is not a religious order in this technical sense, because it has a system of independent houses, meaning that each abbey is autonomous. However, the ...

  5. Glossary of the Catholic Church - Wikipedia

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    Religious institute (Catholic) Religious order; Religious priest – see: Regular clergy (above) Rite to Being – the rite of being left alone to pray to Jesus Christ; Religious sister – see: Sister (below) Right of Option – a way of obtaining a benefice or a title, by the choice of the new titulary; Roman Catholic – the Roman rite of ...

  6. Major orders - Wikipedia

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    The great or Holy Orders are Sub-deaconship, Deaconship and Priesthood; the lesser or Minor Orders are Porter, Reader, Exorcist, and Acolyte. [1] The Catechism of the Council of Trent thus repeats what is stated in chapter II of that Council's Decree on the Sacrament of Order, using the word "priest" to refer both to bishops and to presbyters. [2]

  7. Category:Catholic orders and societies - Wikipedia

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    Pages in category "Catholic orders and societies" The following 136 pages are in this category, out of 136 total. ... Sisters Hospitaller of the Sacred Heart of Jesus;

  8. Hierarchy of the Catholic Church - Wikipedia

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    The bishops, who possess the fullness of orders, and therefore the fullness of both priesthood and diaconate, are as a body (the College of Bishops) considered the successors of the Apostles [19] [20] and are "constituted Pastors in the Church, to be the teachers of doctrine, the priests of sacred worship and the ministers of governance" [21 ...

  9. Sacraments of the Catholic Church - Wikipedia

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    "Sacred tradition and Sacred Scripture form one sacred deposit of the word of God, committed to the Church." [ 10 ] "In the liturgy, above all that of the sacraments, there is an immutable part, a part that is divinely instituted and of which the Church is the guardian, and parts that can be changed , which the Church has the power and on ...