Definition of Priesthood

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Definition of Priesthood
	Priesthood The office or character of a priest; the priestly function. Priests, taken collectively; the order of men set apart for sacred offices; the order of priests. Related Definitions: Apart, Character, Collectively, For, Function, Men, Of, Office, Or, Order, Priest, Priestly, Sacred, Set, Taken, The

Priesthood Quotations

The number, the industry, and the morality of the priesthood, and the devotion of the people have been manifestly increased by the total separation of the church from the state.
James Madison

Is art really the priesthood that demands the pure in heart who belong to it wholly?
Paul Cezanne

The greatest block today in the way of woman's emancipation is the church, the canon law, the Bible and the priesthood.
Elizabeth Cady Stanton

The priesthood is a marriage. People often start by falling in love, and they go on for years without realizing that love must change into some other love which is so unlike it that it can hardly be recognized as love at all.
Iris Murdoch

Science is an integral part of culture. It's not this foreign thing, done by an arcane priesthood. It's one of the glories of the human intellectual tradition.
Stephen Jay Gould

Art is not a pastime but a priesthood.
Jean Cocteau

One cannot escape the harsh fact that as a ministerial profession, the priesthood has very serious problems. They are not new. They did not develop yesterday or last year.
Andrew Greeley

We're not at a point in time to be taking chances with children and young people in the church. The Holy Father himself said... there is no room in the priesthood or religious life for someone who has abused a child. I think he's right.
Roger Mahony

I think in my own country, at the way we've seen through the ordination of women to the priesthood, which I'm delighted about, and that will move on to another level before very long.
George Carey

Religion united its influence with those of loyalty and love, and the order of knighthood, endowed with all the sanctity and religious awe that attended the priesthood, became an object of ambition to the greatest sovereigns.
Thomas Bulfinch

Priesthood Translations

priesthood in German is Priesterschaft
priesthood in Spanish is sacerdocio

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