priestly office

My father does, for that part of him that's concerned with his priestly office.

The priestly office conferred upon him for life as a recompense.

Discharge to men the priestly office, and, present or absent, you shall be followed with their love as by an angel.

This dance is associated with the priestly office.

Religious and priestly offices are usually mentioned before civil and political ones.

It is often said that the Germanic kingship evolved out of a priestly office.

The parents also exercise their priestly office by presenting the children for reception of the sacraments at the appropriate times.

He has also come down to us as an opponent of inept, rich men gaining priestly office through bribes.

The term could also be used for removing someone from a priestly office (sacerdotium).

Since childhood I had seen my mother dressed for her priestly office; yet I was awed.

She had addressed him in private and in his capacity as chancellor, which was not, in theory, a priestly office.

The Silesian clergy had in great measure lost their high concept of the priestly office, although there were honourable exceptions.

The one major public role reserved solely for women was in the sphere of religion: the priestly office of the Vestals.

Spouses also exercise Christ's priestly office.

Although detailed theological knowledge was involved in priestly offices, little is known about what knowledge or training may have been required of the officeholders.

No one could doubt the strength of his personal faith, or the fervor with which he served the responsibilities of his priestly office.

The priestly offices could suggest she was a daughter of one of the Libyan Pharaohs.

Priestly offices were extremely lucrative and tended to be held by the wealthiest and most influential members of Egyptian society.

Unlike the rest of the Greeks, they did not abolish the Kingship or reduce it to a mere priestly office.

He had seen how Balsamon, so casual and merry in private, could instantly assume the dignity his priestly office demanded.

Once activated through the sacraments, the priestly office of the spouses is exercised in prayer and through teaching the children to pray.

In January 1555 Holgate was released from prison, but he was not restored to priestly office.

Four years later, while visiting the Catholic prisoners in Derby gaol, he was apprehended and condemned to death for exercising his priestly office.

The honors which attach to temporal power hark back to the king; those which belong to precedence in the priestly office, to the priest.

His explanations deemed unsatisfactory, the council deposed him from his priestly office and excommunicated him.