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  2. Ordinary (church officer) - Wikipedia

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    An ordinary (from Latin ordinarius) is an officer of a church or civic authority who by reason of office has ordinary power to execute laws. Such officers are found in hierarchically organised churches of Western Christianity which have an ecclesiastical legal system . [ 1 ]

  3. Hierarchy of the Catholic Church - Wikipedia

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    The Supreme Pontiff (the Pope) is a local ordinary for the whole Catholic Church. [71] [72] In Eastern Catholic Churches, Patriarchs, major archbishops, and metropolitans have ordinary power of governance for the whole territory of their respective autonomous particular churches. [73] Diocesan bishops and eparchial eparchs

  4. Excommunication in the Catholic Church - Wikipedia

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    Ordinary power is determined by the law itself, which indicates to what authority the censure is reserved in each case. Delegated power is of two kinds: that granted in permanency and set down in the law and that granted or communicated by personal act, e.g. by authority (faculties) of the Roman Penitentiaria , by episcopal delegation for ...

  5. Papal supremacy - Wikipedia

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    Papal supremacy is the doctrine of the Catholic Church that the Pope, by reason of his office as Vicar of Christ, the visible source and foundation of the unity both of the bishops and of the whole company of the faithful, and as pastor of the entire Catholic Church, has full, supreme, and universal power over the whole church, a power which he can always exercise unhindered: [1] that, in ...

  6. Holy orders in the Catholic Church - Wikipedia

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    In the Latin Church, usually only bishops may licitly administer the sacrament of confirmation, but if an ordinary priest administers that sacrament illicitly, without an indult (reserved to the Holy See prior to Vatican II, and reserved to the local Ordinary after the New Code of Canon Law was promulgated), it is nonetheless considered valid.

  7. Judicial vicar - Wikipedia

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    In the Roman Catholic Church, a judicial vicar or episcopal official (Latin: officialis) is an officer of the diocese who has ordinary power to judge cases in the diocesan ecclesiastical court.

  8. List of fictional clergy and religious figures - Wikipedia

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    The Vestal (Junia) - former priestess of an unknown church, Darkest Dungeon and Darkest Dungeon II The Occultist (Alhazred) - former leader of a cult, Darkest Dungeon and Darkest Dungeon II Bensheng - leader of Happiness Metta Power Group, a fictional cult, The Amazing Grace of Σ [ zh ]

  9. Personal ordinariate - Wikipedia

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    The ordinary cannot be a bishop if married or with dependent children. [131] In that case, while not having episcopal holy orders, in particular the power to ordain to the diaconate, priesthood and episcopacy, he has the powers and privileges of other prelates who are canonically equivalent to diocesan bishops, such as territorial prelates.