Across
- 2. the highest rank
- 4. the office of deacon in the Catholic Church.
- 6. the office of priest in the catholic church: the priesthood
- 7. the faithful of the church who have received the sacrament of holy orders
- 9. the office of bishop in the catholic church.
- 10. a gathering of the worlds cardinals in st peters basilica in Rome.
- 11. College the assembly of the worlds bishops.
- 12. Council a meeting of church leaders
- 14. orders the sacrament by which men are ordained to the episcopacy, priesthood, or diaconate.
- 15. the order of teaching authority in the church, given such authority by Christ himself.
- 16. a defined territorial districts within a diocese, with its own church and congregation, which is placed in the care of a priest.
- 17. Council a council involving all the bishops of a particular nation.
Down
- 1. the territory and the churches under a bishop's authority.
- 3. immunity from error and any possibility of error.
- 5. the name given to the assembly of the people of God
- 6. a state of final purification after death and before entering heaven
- 7. the definitive list of the books of the bible, by virtue of having been declared by the church as inspired by the holy spirit
- 8. the office of pope in the Catholic Church
- 13. a bishop or archbishop who has been selected by a pope to become part of the college of cardinals and thus an adviser.
- 17. successor of St.Peter: Bishop of Rome: supreme pontiff of the Catholic Church