holy order | | |
n. (state) | 1. holy order, 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" |
| ~ 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 | the lowest of the minor Holy Orders in the unreformed Western Church but now suppressed by the Roman Catholic Church. |
| ~ exorcist | one of the minor orders in the unreformed Western Church but now suppressed in the Roman Catholic Church. |
| ~ lector, reader | someone who reads the lessons in a church service; someone ordained in a minor order of the Roman Catholic Church. |
| ~ priest | a clergyman in Christian churches who has the authority to perform or administer various religious rites; one of the Holy Orders. |
| ~ 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. |
| ~ 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" |
n. (act) | 2. holy order | the sacrament of ordination. |
| ~ ordinance, ordination | the act of ordaining; the act of conferring (or receiving) holy orders.; "the rabbi's family was present for his 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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