Vocabulary Week 3

1. Roman Catholic Church: the Christian church of which the pope, or bishop of Rome, is the supreme head.
2. Pope: the bishop of Rome as head of the Roman Catholic Church.
3. Cardinal: of prime importance; chief; principal.
4. Archbishop: a bishop of the highest rank who presides over an archbishopric or archdiocese.
5. Bishop: a person who supervises a number of local churches or a diocese, being in the Greek, Roman Catholic, Anglican, and other churches a member of the highest order of the ministry.
6. Priest: a person whose office it is to perform religious rites, and especially to make sacrificial offerings.
7. Monk: (in any religion) a man who is a member of a monastic order:
8. Nun: a woman member of a religious order, especially one bound by vows of poverty, chastity, and obedience.
9. Clergy: the group or body of ordained persons in a religion, as distinguished from the laity.
10. Cathedral: the principal church of a diocese, containing the bishop's throne.
11. Church: a building for public Christian worship.
12. Monastery: a house or place of residence occupied by a community of persons, especially monks, living in seclusion under religious vows.
13. Mendicant: begging; practicing begging; living on alms.
14. Friar: Roman Catholic Church. a member of a religious order, especially the mendicant orders of Franciscans, Dominicans, Carmelites, and Augustinians.
15. Abbey: a monastery under the supervision of an abbot or a convent under the supervision of an abbess.
16. Abbot: a man who is the head or superior, usually elected, of a monastery.
17. Abbess: a woman who is the superior of a convent of nuns.
18. Nunnery: a building or group of buildings for nuns; convent.
19. Sacraments: the consecrated elements of the Eucharist, especially the bread.
20. Baptism: Ecclesiastical. a ceremonial immersion in water, or application of water, as an initiatory rite or sacrament of the Christian church.
21. Eucharist: the sacrament of Holy Communion; the sacrifice of the Mass; the Lord's Supper.
22. Confirmation: a rite administered to baptized persons, in some churches as a sacrament for confirming and strengthening the recipient in the Christian faith, in others as a rite withoutsacramental character by which the recipient is admitted to full communion with thechurch.
23. Matrimony: the rite, ceremony, or sacrament of marriage.
24. Holy Orders: the rite or sacrament of ordination.
25. Penance: a punishment undergone in token of penitence for sin.
26. Extreme Unction: In the past, the usual name of the sacrament in official documents of the Catholic Church was Extreme Unction meaning, Final Anointing
27. New testament: the collection of the books of the Bible that were produced by the early Christian church,comprising the Gospels, Acts of the Apostles, the Epistles, and the Revelation of St.John the Divine.

Sources: http://www.dictionary.com/

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