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The College of Cardinals is divided into three orders, with formal precedence in the following sequence: [1]. Cardinal bishops (CB): the six cardinals who are assigned the titles of the seven suburbicarian dioceses in the vicinity of Rome by the pope, [a] plus a few other cardinals who have been exceptionally co-opted into the order, [9] [10] as well as patriarchs who head one of the Eastern ...
Church buildings, chapels, altars, and Communion vessels are consecrated for the purpose of religious worship. A person may be consecrated for a specific role within a religious hierarchy, or a person may consecrate his or her life in an act of devotion. In particular, the ordination of a bishop is often called a consecration.
A major offence was to tamper with a consecrated host, otherwise known as the Body of Christ. Additionally, Bible desecration has resulted in prosecution. [1] [2] Most modern nations have abandoned laws against sacrilege out of respect for freedom of expression, except in cases where there is an injury to persons or property.
Churches consecrated to Santa Maria Assunta (Assumption of Mary) include: Santa Maria Assunta, Acerra cathedral; Santa Maria Assunta, Acqui Terme Cathedral; Santa Maria Assunta, Altamura, Province of Bari, Puglia; Basilica di Santa Maria Assunta, Aquileia, a church in Aquileia, province of Udine, Friuli-Venezia Giulia; Santa Marija ,Ghaxaq, Malta
Spain was officially consecrated to the Sacred Heart on 30 May 1919, a solemn act that was attended by the priest Mateo Crawley-Boevey, the Nuncio to Spain Francesco Ragonesi, the bishops, King Alfonso XIII and the government. The idea of consecrating Spain to the Heart of Jesus, as other countries had already done, emerged through an ...
The efficacy of the invocatio depends on the correct naming of the deity, which may include epithets, descriptive phrases, honorifics or titles, and arcane names. The list of names (nomina) is often extensive, particularly in magic spells; many prayers and hymns are composed largely of invocations. [279]
This table is a list of names in the Bible in their native languages. This table is only in its beginning stages. There are thousands of names in the Bible. It will take the work of many Wikipedia users to make this table complete.
This is a list, in chronological order, of present and past offences to which the Catholic Church has attached the penalty of excommunication; the list is not exhaustive. In most cases these were " automatic excommunications", wherein the violator who knowingly breaks the rule is considered automatically excommunicated from the church ...