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Secular clergy, parochial clergy who performed their ministry in seculo, and were contradistingui-shed from the regular clergy, who lived in monasteries, by rules (regul').Clergy who have no particular religious affiliation or do not belong to a particular religious denomina-tion, Black's Law Dictionary, 7th Edn., p. 1356....
Clergy
Clergy [fr. clerge, Fr.; clerus, Lat.], the assembly or body of clerks or ecclesiastics set apart from the rest of the people or laity to superintend the public worship of God and the other ceremonies of religion, and to administer spiritual counsel and instruction.--The clergy were before the Reformation divided into (1) regular, who lived under certain rules, being of some religious order, and were called men of religion, or the religious, such as abbots, priors, monks, etc.; and (2) secular, who did not live under any certain rules of the religious orders, as bishops, deans, parsons, etc. Now the term comprehends all persons in holy orders and in ecclesiastical offices, viz., archbishops, bishops, deans and chapters, archdeacons, rural deans, parsons (either rectors or vicars) and curates, to which may be added parish clerks. The clergy are exempt from serving on juries; restrained from farming more than 80 acres, except with the sanction of the bishop, and cannot carryon any trade....
Benefit of clergy
Benefit of clergy [privilegium clericale, Lat.], an arrest of judgment in criminal cases. The origin of it was this: Princes and states, anciently converted to Christianity, granted to the clergy very bountiful privileges and exemptions, and particularly an immunity of their persons in criminal proceedings before secular judges. The clergy, afterwards increasing in wealth, number, and power, claimed this benefit as an indefeasible right, which had been merely a matter of royal favour, founding their principal argument upon this text of Scripture: 'Touch not mine anointed, and do my prophets no harm.' They obtained great enlargements of this privilege, extending it not only to persons in holy orders, but also to all who had any kind of subordinate ministration in the church, and even to laymen if they could read, applying it to civil as well as criminal causes. These exemptions at length grew so burthensome and scandalous, that the legislature from time to time interfered, by making par...
Eastern Church
That portion of the Christian church which prevails in the countries once comprised in the Eastern Roman Empire and the countries converted to Christianity by missionaries from them Its full official title is The Orthodox Catholic Apostolic Eastern Church It became estranged from the Western or Roman Church over the question of papal supremacy and the doctrine of the filioque and a separation begun in the latter part of the 9th century became final in 1054 The Eastern Church consists of twelve thirteen if the Bulgarian Church be included mutually independent churches including among these the Hellenic Church or Church of Greece and the Russian Church using the vernacular or some ancient form of it in divine service and varying in many points of detail but standing in full communion with each other and united as equals in a great federation The highest five authorities are the patriarch of Constantinople or ecumenical patriarch whose position is not one of supremacy but of precedence th...
Protopope
One of the clergy of first rank in the lower order of secular clergy an archpriest called also protopapas...
Secularism and secularization
Secularism and secularization, there is a difference between secularism and secularisation. Secularisa-tion essentially is a process of decline in religious activity, belief, ways of thinking and in restructur-ing the institution. Though secularism is a political ideology and strictly may not accept any religion as the basis of State action or as the criterion of dealing with citizens, the Constitution of India seeks to synthesise religion, religious practice or matters of religion and secularism. In secularising the matters of religion which are not essentially and integrally parts of religion, secularism, therefore, consciously denounces all forms of supernaturalism or superstitious beliefs or actions and acts which are not essentially or integrally matters of religion or religious belief or faith or religious practices. In other words, non-religious or anti-religious practices are antithesis to secularism which seeks to contribute in some degree to the process of secularisation of t...
Secularization
The act of rendering secular or the state of being rendered secular conversion from regular or monastic to secular conversion from religious to lay or secular possession and uses as the secularization of church property...
Secularism
The state or quality of being secular a secular spirit secularity...
Secularism
Secularism, as narrowly understood to mean neutrality of the State towards all religions and bereft of positive approach towards all religions, Aruna Roy v. Union of India, (2002) 7 SCC 368.Secularism, in the realm of Philosophy, is a system of utilitarian ethics, seeking to maximise human happiness or welfare quite independently of what may be either religious or the occult, Ziyauddin Burhanuddin Bukhari v. Brijmohan Ramdass Mehra, AIR 1975 SC 1788 (1800): (1976) 2 SCC 17: (1975) Supp SCR 281.Secularism, is a convenient label to distinguish all that is done in this world without seeking the intervention or favour of or appropriating a superhuman or divine power or being. In the realm of philosophy it is a system of utilitarian ethics, seeking to promote greatest human happiness or welfare, quite independent of what may be called either religious or the occult, Ziauddin Burhanuddin Bokhari v. Brijmohan Ramdas Mehra, (1976) 2 SCC 17....
Secularize
To convert from regular or monastic into secular as to secularize a priest or a monk...
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