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What (who) is Paraclete - definition
GREEK FOR ADVOCATE OR HELPER, MENTIONED IN JOHN 14:16–17; TRADITIONALLY IDENTIFIED WITH THE HOLY SPIRIT OR WITH OTHER MESSIANIC FIGURES
Paraklete; The Holy Parachute; The Comforter; Paracletos; Holy Paraclete; Promising a Paraclete; Parakletos
Paraclete
['par?kli:t]
¦ noun (in Christian theology) the Holy Spirit as advocate or counsellor (John 14:16, 26).
Origin
via late L. from Gk parakletos 'called in aid'.
paraclete
n.
1.
Advocate, intercessor.
2.
Comforter, consoler, intercessor, Holy Spirit, Spirit of Truth, Holy Ghost.
Paraclete
·noun An advocate; one called to aid or support; hence, the Consoler, Comforter, or Intercessor;
- a term applied to the Holy Spirit.
Wikipedia
Paraclete
Paraclete (Greek: παράκλητος, romanized: Paráklētos) is a Christian biblical term occurring five times in the Johannine texts of the New Testament. In Christian theology, the word commonly refers to the Holy Spirit and is translated as 'advocate', 'counsellor or 'helper'.
Examples of use of Paraclete
1. At Newcastle‘s gleaming new coach station, unfortunately, our loud excitement at finding a coach–tripping nun (a member of the Order Of The Holy Paraclete, en route to Jedburgh in Scotland, who won‘t tell us her name) gives us away.
2. In 1'54, Father Gerald Fitzgerald, the founder of the Servants of the Paraclete, an order specialising in the counselling and care of priests with psychiatric problems, recommended that any priest who, as he put it, "tampered with the virtue of the young" should be reduced to lay status.