sacred order

noun

1. Roman Catholic Church. major order.

Word History and Origins

Origin of sacred order¹

First recorded in 1720–30

Example Sentences

The Vatican’s doctrinal office issued a decree in 2007 saying that “a person who attempts to confer a sacred order on a woman, and the woman who attempts to receive the sacred order,” should trigger automatic excommunication.

From New York Times

This show, organized by the museum’s chief curator, Stacy C. Hollander, proves Hitchcock to be an artificer as much as an observer, imagining dramatic new ways to express the world’s beauty and, as she saw it, its sacred order.

From New York Times

They maintain a sacred order, she'd said.

From Literature

Alyse Viggiano will be ordained to the Sacred Order of Priests by the Rt.

From Washington Post

Two women from the Eternal Sacred Order of the Cherubim and Seraphim, in Nigeria, wearing matching blue dresses and head scarves, walked shoeless into the Aedicule, crossing the Chapel of the Angel, with its walls of elaborately carved marble and proclamations in Greek.

From New York Times