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See also:LECTOR, or READER , a See also:minor See also:- OFFICE (from Lat. officium, " duty," " service," a shortened form of opifacium, from facere, " to do," and either the stem of opes, " wealth," " aid," or opus, " work ")
office-See also:bearer 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. From an See also:early See also:period men have been set apart, under the See also:title of anagnostae, lectores, or readers, for the purpose of See also:reading See also:Holy Scripture in church. We do not know what the See also:custom of the Church was in the first two centuries, the earliest reference to readers, as an See also:- ORDER
- ORDER (through Fr. ordre, for earlier ordene, from Lat. ordo, ordinis, rank, service, arrangement; the ultimate source is generally taken to be the root seen in Lat. oriri, rise, arise, begin; cf. " origin ")
- ORDER, HOLY
order, occurring in the writings of See also:Tertullian (De praescript. haeret. cap. 41); there are frequent allusions to them in the writings of St See also:Cyprian and afterwards. See also:Cornelius, See also:bishop of See also:Rome in A.D. 251-252, in a well-known See also:letter mentions readers among the various church orders then existing at Rome. In the Apostolic Church Order (See also:canon 19), mentionis made of the qualifications and duties of a reader, but no reference is made to their method of ordination. In the Apostolic Didascalia there is recognition of three minor orders of men, subdeacons, readers and singers, in addition to two orders of See also:women, deaconesses and widows. A See also:century later, in the Apostolic Constitutions, we find not only a recognition of readers, but also a See also:form of See also:admission provided for them, consisting of the See also:imposition of hands and See also:prayer (See also:lib. viii. cap. 22). In See also:Africa the imposition of hands was not in use, but a See also:Bible was handed to the newly appointed reader with words of See also:commission to read it, followed by a prayer and a See also:benediction (See also:Fourth See also:Council of See also:Carthage, can. 8). This is the See also:ritual of the See also:Roman Church of to-See also:day. With regard to See also:age, the novels of Justinian (No. 123) forbade any one to be admitted to the office of reader under the age of eighteen. (F. E.
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