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Home Dictionary Name: congregationCongregational
Of or pertaining to a congregation conducted or participated in by a congregation as congregational singing...
Congregation
The act of congregating or bringing together or of collecting into one aggregate or mass...
Redemptorist
One of the Congregation of the Most Holy Redeemer founded in Naples in 1732 by St Alphonsus Maria de Liquori It was introduced onto the United States in 1832 at Detroit The Fathers of the Congregation devote themselves to preaching to the neglected esp in missions and retreats and are forbidden by their rule to engage in the instruction of youth...
Ordination
Ordination, the conferring of holy orders. The first thing necessary on application for only orders is the possession of a title--that is, a sort of assurance from a rector to the bishop that, provided the latter finds the person fit to be ordained, the former will take him for his curate, with a stated salary. The candidate is then examined by the bishop or his chaplain respecting both his faith and his erudition; and various certificates are necessary, particularly one signed by the clergyman of the parish in which he has resided during a given time. the candidate has to comply with the requirements of the Clerical Subscription Act, 1865 (28 & 29 Vict. c. 122) (see CLERICAL SUBSCRIPTION); and a clerk must have attained his twenty-third year before he can be ordained a deacon; and his twenty-fourth to receive priest'' orders.---4 Geo. 3, c. 43; Canon 34.In the Presbyterian and Congregational churches ordination means the act of establishing a licensed preacher over a congregation with...
bell ringer
a person who rings church bells as for summoning the congregation...
Cahenslyism
A plan proposed to the Pope in 1891 by P P Cahensly a member of the German parliament to divide the foreign born population of the United States for ecclesiastical purposes according to European nationalities and to appoint bishops and priests of like race and speaking the same language as the majority of the members of a diocese or congregation This plan was successfully opposed by the American party in the Church...
Collective
Formed by gathering or collecting gathered into a mass sum or body congregated or aggregated as the collective body of a nation...
Congregate
Collected compact close...
Congregationalist
One who belongs to a Congregational church or society one who holds to Congregationalism...
Deacon
An officer in Christian churches appointed to perform certain subordinate duties varying in different communions In the Roman Catholic and Episcopal churches a person admitted to the lowest order in the ministry subordinate to the bishops and priests In Presbyterian churches he is subordinate to the minister and elders and has charge of certain duties connected with the communion service and the care of the poor In Congregational churches he is subordinate to the pastor and has duties as in the Presbyterian church...
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