User:Jnestorius/Ecclesiastic ranks

Category:Holy orders in the Catholic Church Category:Catholic ecclesiastical titles

holy orders

• (tonsure before holy orders)
• Minor orders
  • ostiarius (porter/doorkeeper)
  • lector (reader)
  • exorcist
  • acolyte
• major orders
  • subdeacon
  • deacon
  • priest
  • bishop

cardinal Hierarchy of the Catholic Church

• patriarch
• primate
• major archbishop
• metropolitan bishop
• archbishop
• diocesan bishop
• ordinary (Catholic Church)
• suffragan bishop

dean archdeacon canon monsignor

priory monastery abbey friar monk

Consecrated life

• society of apostolic life
• institute of consecrated life
  • secular institute
  • religious institute
    • Catholic religious order
      • monastic made up of monks (who may be clerics) and/or nuns who are bound to live and work at their monastery and recite the Liturgy of the Hours in common
      • Mendicant orders made up of friars (clerics or lay people) who, while living and praying in common, may have a more active apostolate, and depend on alms for their life
      • canons regular made up of canons (clerics) and canonesses regular, who sing the liturgy in choir and may run parish-like apostolates
      • clerics regular made up of priests who are also vowed religious and who usually have a more active apostolate