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Definitions of holy order
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  • priest a clergyman in Christian churches who has the authority to perform or administer various religious rites; one of the Holy Orders
  • deacon a cleric ranking just below a priest in Christian churches; one of the Holy Orders
  • 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
  • ordinance the act of ordaining; the act of conferring (or receiving) holy orders
  • ordination the act of ordaining; the act of conferring (or receiving) holy orders
  • doorkeeper the lowest of the minor Holy Orders in the unreformed Western Church but now suppressed by the Roman Catholic Church
  • ostiarius the lowest of the minor Holy Orders in the unreformed Western Church but now suppressed by the Roman Catholic Church
  • subdeacon a clergyman an order below deacon; one of the Holy Orders in the unreformed western Christian church and the eastern Catholic Churches but now suppressed in the Roman Catholic Church
  • ostiary the lowest of the minor Holy Orders in the unreformed Western Church but now suppressed by the Roman Catholic Church
  • ordainer a cleric who ordains; a cleric who admits someone to holy orders
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