Medieval Church

By: Osama AmalMohammed Bunkheila

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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• (in Christianity) a man who has withdrawn from the world for religiousreasons, especially as a member of an order of cenobites livingaccording to a particular rule and under vows of poverty, chastity,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.

Archdiocese

• the diocese of an archbishop.