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ostiarius

DEFINITIONS OF: ostiarius

1

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

Synonyms:
doorkeeper, ostiary
Type of:
clergyman, man of the cloth, reverend
a member of the clergy and a spiritual leader of the Christian Church
Holy Order, Order
(usually plural) the status or rank or office of a Christian clergyman in an ecclesiastical hierarchy
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