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What (who) is minor orders - definition
Minor orders
DEGREES WITHIN THE ORDINATION THAT WAS CARRIED OUT TO CLERGYMEN WHO HAD ALREADY ORDAINED TONSURE TO PERFORM CERTAIN SERVICES TO THE CATHOLIC CHURCH
Minor Orders; Minor order; Ordines Minores; Inferior clergy; Lower clergy
Minor orders are ranks of church ministry. In the Catholic Church, the predominating Latin Church formerly distinguished between the major orders —priest (including bishop), deacon and subdeacon—and four minor orders—acolyte, exorcist, lector, and porter (in descending order).
minor orders
DEGREES WITHIN THE ORDINATION THAT WAS CARRIED OUT TO CLERGYMEN WHO HAD ALREADY ORDAINED TONSURE TO PERFORM CERTAIN SERVICES TO THE CATHOLIC CHURCH
Minor Orders; Minor order; Ordines Minores; Inferior clergy; Lower clergy
¦ plural noun chiefly historical the grades of Catholic or Orthodox clergy below the rank of deacon.
Academic minor
SECONDARY ACADEMIC DISCIPLINE DURING UNDERGRADUATE STUDIES
Minor degree; Minor (Academic); Minored; Minor (degree); Minor (academic)
An academic minor is a college or university student's declared secondary academic discipline during their undergraduate studies. As with a major, the college or university in question lays out a framework of required classes or class types a student must complete to earn the minor – although the latitude the student is given changes from college to college.
