Holy Order

(Old Testament) elder brother of Moses and first high priest of the Israelites; created the golden calf

(Roman Catholic Church) Roman priest who became bishop of Milan; the first Church Father born and raised in the Christian faith; composer of hymns; imposed orthodoxy on the early Christian church and built up its secular power; a saint and Doctor of the Church (340?-397)

an Italian who was a Benedictine monk; was archbishop of Canterbury from 1093 to 1109; one of the founders of scholasticism; best known for his proof of the existence of God

(Roman Catholic Church) archbishop of Canterbury from 1162 to 1170; murdered following his opposition to Henry II's attempts to control the clergy (1118-1170)

Italian cardinal and theologian (1542-1621)

Irish philosopher and Anglican bishop who opposed the materialism of Thomas Hobbes (1685-1753)

Italian cardinal and military leader; model for Machiavelli's prince (1475-1507)

(Roman Catholic Church) Spanish priest who founded an order whose members became known as Dominicans or Black Friars (circa 1170-1221)

Christian bishop of Caesarea in Palestine; a church historian and a leading early Christian exegete (circa 270-340)

bishop of Antioch who was martyred under the Roman Emperor Trajan (died 110)

English prelate noted for his pessimistic sermons and articles (1860-1954)

prelate who was the confessor of Isabella I and who was later appointed Grand Inquisitor (1436-1517)

French bishop who is a patron saint of France (died in 397)

English prelate and theologian who (with John Keble and Edward Pusey) founded the Oxford movement; Newman later turned to Roman Catholicism and became a cardinal (1801-1890)

a bishop in Asia Minor who is associated with Santa Claus (4th century)

French prelate and statesman; principal minister to Louis XIII (1585-1642)

South African prelate and leader of the antiapartheid struggle (born in 1931)

a Christian believed to be of Cappadocian descent who became bishop of the Visigoths in 341 and translated the Bible from Greek into Gothic; traditionally held to have invented the Gothic alphabet (311-382)

Irish prelate who deduced from the Bible that Creation occurred in the year 4004 BC (1581-1656)

English prelate and statesman; founded a college at Oxford and Winchester College in Winchester; served as chancellor of England and bishop of Winchester (1324-1404)

Polish prelate who persuaded the Soviet to allow greater religious freedom in Poland (1901-1981)

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

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)

a cleric ranking just below a priest in Christian churches; one of the Holy Orders

the lowest of the minor Holy Orders in the unreformed Western Church but now suppressed by the Roman Catholic Church

one of the minor orders in the unreformed Western Church but now suppressed in the Roman Catholic Church

someone who reads the lessons in a church service; someone ordained in a minor order of the Roman Catholic Church

a clergyman in Christian churches who has the authority to perform or administer various religious rites; one of the Holy Orders

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

a boy serving as an acolyte

a senior clergyman and dignitary

a senior member of the Christian clergy having spiritual and administrative authority; appointed in Christian churches to oversee priests or ministers; considered in some churches to be successors of the twelve Apostles of Christ

a priest who is a member of a cathedral chapter

an officiating priest celebrating the Eucharist

a priest who hears confession and gives absolution

(Roman Catholic Church) a priest who is an honorary member of the papal household

`Father' is a term of address for priests in some churches (especially the Roman Catholic Church or the Orthodox Catholic Church); `Padre' is frequently used in the military

(Roman Catholic Church) an ecclesiastical title of honor bestowed on some priests

a member of the highest council of priests in ancient Rome

a woman priest

an acolyte who carries a thurible

a Roman Catholic priest who acts for another higher-ranking clergyman