Search results for "Holy Orders in Christianity" - New World Encyclopedia
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- The term Holy Orders comes from the Latin Ordo (order) and the word ... Members of holy orders, as leaders of their religious communities ...19 KB (2,961 words) - 11:04, 2 February 2024
- ancient order of mystical ascetics who lived in many parts of the ancient world ... According to Philo, communities of Therapeutae were widely established ...12 KB (1,764 words) - 18:27, 30 April 2023
- adherents, and mark dispensational events in personal life and of the life ... In Christianity, the word "sacrament" (from Latin: "sacramentum ...20 KB (3,310 words) - 20:37, 17 April 2023
- with the Jansenists while studying theology in Paris, and collaborated with ... Nicole was a serious theological scholar and sought admission to Holy ...10 KB (1,535 words) - 05:25, 24 November 2022
- An archangel is a superior or higher-ranking angel found in a number ... been suggested as the remaining archangels in the different branches of Christianity ...17 KB (2,515 words) - 02:14, 9 January 2023
- Christianity in Japan is a religious minority, which constitutes about ... Nearly all known traditional denominations of Christianity, including ...21 KB (2,903 words) - 21:10, 10 December 2023
- associating himself with the Dominicans in the early 1500s, Pfefferkorn ... Pfefferkorn succeeded temporarily in influencing Emperor Maximilian ...12 KB (1,811 words) - 07:19, 5 April 2024
- the Christian practice of appointing bishops in lineages of uninterrupted ... and presbyters (priests) ordained by bishops in the apostolic succession can ...31 KB (4,731 words) - 02:04, 9 January 2023
- , Bishop of Paris from 1228 until his death in 1249, was the first of the ... the triune God as Father, Son, and Holy Spirit, explaining the procession ...11 KB (1,755 words) - 15:20, 14 May 2023
- Catholic Church and the coming of a new age of the Holy Spirit. The son of a court official in Calabria, Italy, Joachim followed at ...14 KB (2,212 words) - 05:54, 5 April 2024
- and a former slave from Panama, he grew up in poverty and was taken in as ... Saint Martin of Porres was beatified in 1837, by Pope Gregory XVI ...10 KB (1,693 words) - 15:53, 7 November 2022
- various religious traditions that originated in India, and now are practiced ... caste. Throughout his life, a person remains in the same caste into which he ...19 KB (2,973 words) - 13:22, 22 January 2024
- the office of deacon originated in the selection of seven Hellenistic ... Among the more prominent deacons in history are Saint Stephen, Philip ...20 KB (3,190 words) - 19:56, 22 May 2020
- for the miraculous nature of his election, in which a dove is said to have ... Fabian's episcopacy was one of substantial importance in the ...11 KB (1,652 words) - 09:39, 24 November 2022
- to the "hellenization" of Christianity. a highly unorthodox and controversial figure in Church history. ...14 KB (2,240 words) - 11:08, 19 December 2023
- taken religious vows of poverty and celibacy in order to dedicate himself to ... (Eremitic Monasticism) while others live in a community with like-minded ...38 KB (6,105 words) - 20:00, 9 November 2022
- Child are among the central icons of Christianity, representing the Madonna ... a work of art, rather than a single figure in one, refers to a portrait-style ...21 KB (3,389 words) - 04:56, 5 November 2022
- E.), and continues through the rise of Christianity and the fall of the Western ... has been usurped as a result of confidence in human ingenuity inspired by ...12 KB (1,804 words) - 10:51, 19 December 2023
- acres, it is the smallest independent nation in the world. It was created in 1929 by the Lateran Treaty as a vestige of the much ...21 KB (3,351 words) - 22:10, 21 December 2023
- a Christian monk, theologian, and scholar. In his early life, he was a civil ... to Saint Sophronius, who instructed him in the theological teachings of ...20 KB (3,077 words) - 01:06, 9 November 2022
