Definition of holy order Holy order
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| holy order - (usually plural) the status or rank or office of a Christian clergyman in an ecclesiastical hierarchy; "theologians still disagree over whether `bishop' should or should not be a separate Order" | ||
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| status, position the relative position or standing of things or especially persons in a society; "he had the status of a minor"; "the novel attained the status of a classic"; "atheists do not enjoy a favorable position in American life" | ||
| acolyte someone who assists a priest or minister in a liturgical service; a cleric ordained in the highest of the minor orders in the Roman Catholic Church but not in the Anglican Church or the Eastern Orthodox Churches | ||
| anagnost a cleric in the minor orders of the Eastern Orthodox Church who reads the lessons aloud in the liturgy (analogous to the lector in the Roman Catholic Church) | ||
| deacon a cleric ranking just below a priest in Christian churches; one of the Holy Orders | ||
| ostiarius, ostiary, doorkeeper someone who guards an entrance | ||
| exorcist someone who practices exorcism | ||
| lector, reader a public lecturer at certain universities | ||
| priest a clergyman in Christian churches who has the authority to perform or administer various religious rites; one of the Holy Orders | ||
| holy order - the sacrament of ordination | ||
| sacrament a formal religious ceremony conferring a specific grace on those who receive it; the two Protestant ceremonies are baptism and the Lord's Supper; in the Roman Catholic Church and the Eastern Orthodox Church there are seven traditional rites accepted as instituted by Jesus: baptism and confirmation and Holy Eucharist and penance and holy orders and matrimony and extreme unction | ||
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