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Originally appearing in Volume V10, Page 80 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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EXORCIST (See also:Lat. exorcista, Gr. i oprcio•T17s)  , in the See also:Roman See also:Catholic See also:church, the third grade in the See also:minor orders of the See also:clergy, between. those of See also:acolyte and reader . The See also: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 . 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 . 256) . " 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 . " The exorcist a terror to demons " (See also:Paulinus, Epist .

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