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Medieval Church
By: Osama AmalMohammed Bunkheila
8E
A monastery
• is a facility that houses a religious community of monks or nuns
Convent
• a community of persons devoted to religious life under a superior
Monk
• (in Christianity) a man who has withdrawn from the world for religiousreasons, especially as a member of an order of cenobites livingaccording to a particular rule and under vows of poverty, chastity, andobedience.
Nun
• a woman member of a religious order, especially one bound by vows ofpoverty, chastity, and obedience.
Abbot
• a man who is the head or superior, usually elected, of a monastery.
Abbess
• a woman who is the head of a convent
Vatican
• the authority and government of the pope (distinguished from theQuirinal ).
infallible
• not liable to failure
vicar of Christ
• the pope, with reference to his claim to stand in the place of JesusChrist and possess His authority in the church.
dioceses
• an ecclesiastical district under the jurisdiction of a bishop.
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