Holy Orders Definition

noun
The sacrament or rite of Christian ordination.
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The state of having received Christian ordination.
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The ranks or grades of Christian ordination; specif., in the Roman Catholic Church, those of bishop, priest, or deacon.
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Idioms, Phrasal Verbs Related to Holy Orders

  • take holy orders

Holy Orders Sentence Examples

  • Having taken holy orders his advancement in the Church was very rapid, mainly through the influence of his brother Andrew.

  • In 1561 he became a fellow of his college and took holy orders.

  • Abroad unsuccessful attempts were made by local councils to enact that officials and vicars-general should be in holy orders (Hefele on Councils of Tortosa in 1429 and Sixth of Milan in 1582).

  • On leaving Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge, in 1681, he became an assistant master at the Birmingham grammarschool, and took holy orders.

  • As applied to the Roman Catholic Church the word embraces the whole hierarchy, whether its clerici be in holy orders or merely in minor orders.

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