Priesthood的意思|Priesthood的解释-里氏词典

priesthood ['pri:sthud]

n. 神职人员, 祭司职

priesthood

[ noun ]
the body of ordained religious practitioners
<noun.group>

Priesthood \Priest"hood\, n.
1. The office or character of a priest; the priestly
function. --Bk. of Com. Prayer.

2. Priests, taken collectively; the order of men set apart
for sacred offices; the order of priests.

Harris' election last September by members of the Boston Episcopal diocese also touched off debate from other denominations that bar women from the priesthood.
Coelho was raised on a dairy farm near Fresno, Calif. In college at Loyola University, he discovered he had epilepsy and was turned down for his first career _ the Catholic priesthood.
The conference can refuse to place and congregations can dismiss a rabbi, but a homosexual rabbi cannot lose his or her ordination, which represents an attainment of learning, not a sanctification by God, as in the priesthood.
But few Regians opt for the priesthood these days.
Although his recent letter on women plainly kept them barred from his church's priesthood, it still hacked away at some of the old religious biases against them.
In a document issued in September, John Paul reaffirmed the Roman Catholic Church's ban on priesthood for women.
I'd like to suggest to these conservatives that many, many Catholics realize that a married priesthood and women priests would offer and add to the quality of the priesthood that is lacking today.
I'd like to suggest to these conservatives that many, many Catholics realize that a married priesthood and women priests would offer and add to the quality of the priesthood that is lacking today.
Nevertheless, at one conference on women's ordination, 600 Roman Catholic women said they felt called to the priesthood.
About 1,000 women have been ordained to the Anglican priesthood mostly in the United States, Canada and New Zealand.
A former Nigerian legislator, Rufus Olumba, teaches in his native "agbada" robes and headdress to a mostly white priesthood class.
The youngest of nine children, he began studying for the priesthood at age 11; at 24, he was ordained.
Nelson, a lifelong Episcopalian, was nominated into the priesthood by the congregation at All Saints Episcopal Church under a canon allowing elevation of parishioners to priests in remote parishes.
About 15 percent of priests have left the priesthood since 1970, said Dean R. Hoge, a sociologist at Catholic University of America.
The diocese now has three women deacons eligible for ordination to the priesthood and Walker says it is likely they will be ordained early next year.
In 1988-89 alone, 1,242 men were silenced or released from the priesthood.
'This priesthood of specialists typically acts very conservatively, in well-documented, safe ways.' Tension between regulators and the regulated is an even more formidable obstacle.
Church of England leaders voted Tuesday in favor of proposals to admit women to the priesthood, despite opposition from their spiritual head, Archbishop of Canterbury Robert Runcie, who warned it could split the church.
Mr Antonio Reynoso, recently suspended from the priesthood for involvement in politics, is promising a virtual revolution in the Dominican Republic.
PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AP) _ An activist priest expelled from his religious order for being a "destabilizing" influence in Haiti is in excellent spirits and contemplating a future outside the priesthood, friends said Friday.
Any aspect of sex is another, and today C4 starts a series called Catholics And Sex (11.00) with a look at the celibate priesthood which hands down diktats from the Holy See and the ordinary people who pay the price.
Richard Schoenherr, a sociologist at the University of Wisconsin who oversaw the study on the priesthood, suggested lifting the requirement of celibacy for priests might slow the decline in numbers.
Born in Stone, Staffordshire, he studied for the priesthood at Oscott College in Birmingham, where he also taught theology for seven years.
Men and women "are equal in dignity before God and before one another," the proposed declaration stresses, and "incapacity to deal with women as equals" indicates lack of fitness for the priesthood.
Professional interest is best served by making what is easy to do seem hard; by subordinating laity to priesthood.
The pope has made it clear he has no intention of changing the church position mandating priestly celibacy and an all-male priesthood.
Around 90 per cent of Pushkar's 11,000-strong population is connected with the priesthood; the other 10 per cent appear to work in the tourist trade.
He was a shy child whose parents hoped he would enter the priesthood. Instead he had a fling with bullfighting, then studied medicine for a time before turning to music.
Mormons define priesthood as the authority to act in the name of God, and membership is a prerequisite to any appointment in the church's lay leadership or to performing such rites as baptism, temple marriage and healing the sick.
Runcie said that in an age when women took part in leadership, the priesthood actually may be weakened by being solely male.

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