Tonsure
Tonsure Tonsure is the practice of some Christian churches ... and esteem. There were three forms of tonsure known in the seventh and eighth centuries ... in Byzantine Asia Minor and bore this tonsure, had to allow his hair to grow ... article On The Shape Of The Insular Tonsure) describes the "delta" tonsure cut as ...
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Clergy
... can be members of the clergy. Catholic clerical organisation is hierarchical in nature: before the ... reforms after the Second Vatican Council, the tonsure admitted a man to the clerical state, after which he could receive the ... been replaced by lay ministries and the tonsure no longer takes place, the clerical state being tied to reception of ...
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Ulrich Boner
... as far as can be ascertained, took clerical orders and became a monk; yet as ... it is certain that he received the tonsure only, and was thus entitled to the ... uxoriati, who, on divesting themselves of the clerical garb, could return to secular life. He ...
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Holy Orders
... and subdeacon. Candidates for ordination receive the clerical tonsure prior to being ordained by the laying ... but are mutable rules of discipline. See clerical celibacy for a more detailed discussion. Married ...
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Pietro, Cardinal Ottoboni
... In his ecclesiastical career, Ottoboni received the clerical tonsure and the minor orders, October 20 1689 ...
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Apostolnik
... apostolnik or epimandylion is an item of clerical clothing worn by Orthodox Christian nuns. A ... will then receive the apostolnik at her tonsure. In this practice, the epanokamelavkion may be ...
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Ecclesiastical benefice
... certain qualities in the appointee: (a) The clerical state and celibacy Tonsure is necessary for all benefices, and higher ...
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Aegidius of Assisi
... and appears to have then received the clerical tonsure. About 1212 Aegidius made a pilgrimage to ...
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Roman Catholic Church
... previous orders, as well as that of tonsure, which formerly marked entrance to the ranks ... also of the institutes classified as either clerical or lay religious congregations, and even of ...
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Minor orders
... of the clergy. After induction into the clerical state through the tonsure, a seminarian could receive the first four ...
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