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Cathedral

The principal church in a diocese, so called because in it the bishop has his official chair (Cathedra) or throne.

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Church 76% connected

A building set apart for Christian worship.

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Minster 76% connected

A church of a monastery. The name is often retained and applied to the church after the monastery has ceased to exist (as Beverly Minster, Southwell…

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Cathedra 70% connected

The official chair or throne of a bishop, or of any person in high authority.

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Duomo 92% connected

A cathedral. See Dome, 2.

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Apse noun · 78% connection

The bishop's seat or throne, in ancient churches.

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Archbishop noun · 78% connection

A chief bishop; a church dignitary of the first class (often called a metropolitan or primate) who superintends the conduct of the suf…

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Bishop noun · 78% connection

In the Roman Catholic, Greek, and Anglican or Protestant Episcopal churches, one ordained to the highest order of the ministry, superi…

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Bishoplike adjective · 78% connection

Resembling a bishop; belonging to a bishop.

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Bishopric noun · 78% connection

A diocese; the district over which the jurisdiction of a bishop extends.

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Chapter noun · 78% connection

An assembly of monks, or of the prebends and other clergymen connected with a cathedral, conventual, or collegiate church, or of a dio…

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Chorepiscopus noun · 78% connection

A "country" or suffragan bishop, appointed in the ancient church by a diocesan bishop to exercise episcopal jurisdiction in a rural di…

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Commissary noun · 78% connection

An officer of the bishop, who exercises ecclesiastical jurisdiction in parts of the diocese at a distance from the residence of the bi…

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Confirmation noun · 78% connection

A rite supplemental to baptism, by which a person is admitted, through the laying on of the hands of a bishop, to the full privileges…

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Convention verb · 78% connection

An extraordinary assembly of the parkiament or estates of the realm, held without the king's writ, -- as the assembly which restored C…

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Curule adjective · 78% connection

Of or pertaining to a kind of chair appropriated to Roman magistrates and dignitaries; pertaining to, having, or conferring, the right…

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Diocesan noun · 78% connection

A bishop, viewed in relation to his diocese; as, the diocesan of New York.

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Diocese noun · 78% connection

The circuit or extent of a bishop's jurisdiction; the district in which a bishop exercises his ecclesiastical authority.

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Ecclesiarch noun · 78% connection

An official of the Eastern Church, resembling a sacrist in the Western Church.

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Enthronization noun · 78% connection

The act of enthroning; hence, the admission of a bishop to his stall or throne in his cathedral.

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Enthronize verb · 78% connection

To place on a throne; hence, to induct into office, as a bishop.

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Exeat noun · 78% connection

A permission which a bishop grants to a priest to go out of his diocese.

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Faldistory noun · 78% connection

The throne or seat of a bishop within the chancel.

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