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CONFESSOR , in the See also:Christian 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, a word used in the two senses of (r) a See also:person the See also:holy See also:character of whose See also:life and See also:death entitle him or her, in the See also:judgment of the Church, to a See also:peculiar reputation for sanctity, (2) a See also:priest empowered to hear confessions.
(1) In the first sense the word confessor was in the See also:early Church sometimes applied loosely to all martyrs, but more properly to those who, having suffered persecution and torturefor the faith, were afterwards allowed to See also:die in See also:peace. The See also:present sense of the word, as defined above, See also:developed after the ages of persecution had passed. It came to be applied by See also:custom, as did the predicate " See also:Saint.," to the holy men of the past; e.g. Ecgberht, See also:archbishop of See also:York (Excerpt. cap. See also:xxviii), speaks of " the holy fathers whom we have styled confessors, i.e. bishops and priests who have served See also:God in chastity." But, as in the See also:case of " saint," the right of declaring the holy dead to be " confessors " was ultimately reserved to the Holy See. The most celebrated instance of the formal bestowal of the See also:style is that of See also:- KING
- KING (O. Eng. cyning, abbreviated into cyng, cing; cf. O. H. G. chun- kuning, chun- kunig, M.H.G. kiinic, kiinec, kiinc, Mod. Ger. Konig, O. Norse konungr, kongr, Swed. konung, kung)
- KING [OF OCKHAM], PETER KING, 1ST BARON (1669-1734)
- KING, CHARLES WILLIAM (1818-1888)
- KING, CLARENCE (1842–1901)
- KING, EDWARD (1612–1637)
- KING, EDWARD (1829–1910)
- KING, HENRY (1591-1669)
- KING, RUFUS (1755–1827)
- KING, THOMAS (1730–1805)
- KING, WILLIAM (1650-1729)
- KING, WILLIAM (1663–1712)
King See also:Edward of See also:England, who was made a " Confessor " on his See also:canonization by See also:Pope See also:Alexander III. in 1161, and has since been commonly known as Edward the Confessor.
(2) The confessor in the second sense is now termed in ecclesiastical Latin confessarius (med. See also:Lat. confessare, to confess), to distinguish him from the " confessor " described above. The functions of the confessor are dealt with in the See also:article See also:CONFESSION (q.v.). Here it need only be pointed out that though, in the See also:Roman See also:Catholic Church, the potestas ordinis of every priest includes the See also:power of granting See also:absolution, according to the established discipline of the Church, no priest can be a confessor, i.e. hear confessions, without a See also:special See also:faculty from his See also:bishop.
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