A Theological Dictionary, Vol. 1 of 2: Containing Definitions of All Religious Terms; A Comprehensive View of Every Article in the System of Divinity; An Impartial Account of All the Principal Denominations Which Have Subsisted in the Religious World From

Charles Buck

ISBN 10: 0243588003 / ISBN 13: 9780243588008

Editore: Forgotten Books, 2018

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• Titolo: A Theological Dictionary, Vol. 1 of 2: Containing Definitions of All Religious Terms; A Comprehensive View of Every Article in the System of Divinity; An Impartial Account of All the Principal Denominations Which Have Subsisted in the Religious World From
• Editore: Forgotten Books
• Data di pubblicazione: 2018
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 0243588003
• ISBN 13: 9780243588008
• Rilegatura: PAP
• Condizione: New
• Peso: 715 grammi

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Excerpt from A Theological Dictionary, Vol. 1 of 2: Containing Definitions of All Religious Terms; A Comprehensive View of Every Article in the System of Divinity; An Impartial Account of All the Principal Denominations Which Have Subsisted in the Religious World From the Birth of Christ to the Present

Abbess, the superior of an ah bey or convent of nuns. The abbess has the same rights and authority over her nuns that the abbots te gular have over their monks. The sex, indeed, does not allow her to perform the spiritual functions ah nexed to the priesthood, where with the abbot is usually invested but there are instances of some ah besses who have a right, or rather a privilege, to commission a priest to act for them. They have even a kind of episcopal jurisdiction, as well as some abbots who are exempted from tbc visitation of their diocesan.

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