See also:EXORCIST (See also:Lat. exorcista, Gr. i oprcio•T17s)
, in the See also:Roman See also:Catholic See also:- CHURCH
- CHURCH (according to most authorities derived from the Gr. Kvpcaxov [&wµa], " the Lord's [house]," and common to many Teutonic, Slavonic and other languages under various forms—Scottish kirk, Ger. Kirche, Swed. kirka, Dan. kirke, Russ. tserkov, Buig. cerk
- CHURCH, FREDERICK EDWIN (1826-1900)
- CHURCH, GEORGE EARL (1835–1910)
- CHURCH, RICHARD WILLIAM (1815–189o)
- CHURCH, SIR RICHARD (1784–1873)
church, the third grade in the See also:minor orders of the See also:clergy, between. those of See also:acolyte and reader
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The See also:- OFFICE (from Lat. officium, " duty," " service," a shortened form of opifacium, from facere, " to do," and either the stem of opes, " wealth," " aid," or opus, " work ")
office, which involves the right of ceremonially exorcising devils (see See also:EXORCISM), is actually no more . than a preliminary See also:stage of the priesthood
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The earliest See also:record of the See also:special ordination of exorcists is the 7th See also:canon of the See also:council of See also:Carthage (A.D
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256)
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" When they are ordained," it runs, " they receive from the See also:hand of the See also:bishop a little See also:book in which the exorcisms are written, receiving See also:power to See also:lay hands on the energumeni, whether baptized or catechumens." Whatever its See also:present position, the office of See also:exorcist was, until comparatively See also:recent times, by no means considered a See also:sinecure
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" The exorcist a terror to demons " (See also:Paulinus, Epist
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