regionary

The increasing insignificance of the "regionary" and

The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 3: Brownson-Clairvaux 1840-1916 1913

Besides the clergy attached to each Roman Church, there was in the city a "regionary" clergy of almost equal antiquity, so called because of its relations to the ecclesiastical regiones or quarters into which, after the fashion of the municipal regions, Christian

The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 3: Brownson-Clairvaux 1840-1916 1913

But his name is not found in any ancient register of either of those churches, and it is now agreed, among the most judicious critics, that he was ordained a regionary bishop to preach the gospel to infidels.

The Lives of the Fathers, Martyrs, and Principal Saints January, February, March Alban Butler

St. Swidbert was pressed by his numerous flock of converts, and by his fellow-laborers, to receive the episcopal consecration: for this purpose he returned to England soon after the year 697, where he was consecrated regionary bishop to preach the gospel to infidels, without being attached to any see, by Wilfrid, bishop of York, who happened to be then banished from his own see, and employed in preaching the faith in

The Lives of the Fathers, Martyrs, and Principal Saints January, February, March Alban Butler

The pope had at hand his suburban bishops, the Roman parish priests, and regionary deacons.

The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 7: Gregory XII-Infallability 1840-1916 1913

It was natural enough, therefore, that the term cardinales should very soon be applied to these regionary deacons

The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 3: Brownson-Clairvaux 1840-1916 1913

Virgil dispatched the regionary bishop Modestus to

The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 13: Revelation-Stock 1840-1916 1913

Basilica; also the twelve regionary deacons (diacones regionarrii) who are wont to read the Gospel in the "station" churches of Rome.

The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 3: Brownson-Clairvaux 1840-1916 1913

Mass with two ministers only -- a deacon and a subdeacon -- in place of the number of concelebrating priests, regionary deacons, and assistant subdeacons whom we see around the celebrating bishop in the first centuries at Rome, when further the liturgical lessons were reduced to two, and one of them was sung by the deacon, it seemed natural that the subdeacon should read the other.

The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 9: Laprade-Mass Liturgy 1840-1916 1913

A word of mention is here due to the missionary or regionary bishops, episcopi gentium, episcopi (archiepiscopi) in gentibus, still found in the eleventh century.

The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 5: Diocese-Fathers of Mercy 1840-1916 1913