Citations:cleric in minor orders

English citations of cleric in minor orders

(Catholicism, historical) A member of one of the four minor orders of the Catholic Church.

• 1885, The Encyclopaedic Dictionary: A New & Original Work of Reference to All the Words in the English Language, with a Full Account of Their Origin, Meaning, Pronunciation, & Use, page 543:

  In the Roman Church a cleric in minor orders is reduced to lay-communion by marriage; and a priest dispensed by the Pope from his obligation—wearing the clerical dress, reciting the breviary, and observing celibacy—is usually prohibited from exercising sacerdotal functions.

• 2003 July 1, Theo Clemens, Wim Janse, Dutch Review of Church History, Volume 83: The Pastor Bonus: Papers read at the British-Dutch Colloquium at Utrecht, 18-21 September 2002, BRILL, →ISBN, page 72:

  According to Hostiensis this sentence is true if the cleric receives a benefice; apart from that, a cleric in minor orders, when marrying, is not forced to wear the tonsure. He will be deprived of every worldly privilege of clerics but he will retain his status; he might even loose that condition in the case of delinquency.

• 2015 November 10, Jennifer D. Thibodeaux, The Manly Priest: Clerical Celibacy, Masculinity, and Reform in England and Normandy, 1066-1300, University of Pennsylvania Press, →ISBN, page 155:

  A cleric in minor orders could no longer see his vocation as a steppingstone to the priesthood. He could marry, but he could not provide the economic stability necessary to sustain a household, something that men in other occupations could.

• 2022 July 15, Richard Herr, Rural Change and Royal Finances in Spain at the End of the Old Regime, Univ of California Press, →ISBN, page 407:

  Molina de la Zerda was the family name not only of the wealthy widow but of the alguacil of the Inquisition, of one of the clerics in the minor orders, and of the two single women called dona. Don Josef Galindo y Soriano was fiel ejecutor and don Francisco Galindo y Soriano the other cleric in minor orders (he also had a house on the town square). These three families formed the aristocracy of the town.