Across
- 2. highest rank of bishop
- 3. successor to the Apostles
- 4. Sacred Scripture and Sacred Tradition
- 7. a diocese in one of the Eastern Rites of the Catholic Church
- 9. charism of the pope and the Magisterium that guarantees freedom from error in teachings on Faith and morals
- 10. servant
- 12. male ordained to celebrate Mass, consecrate the Eucharist, and other service as a co-worker with his bishop
- 16. ordinary and universal teaching authority of the pope and the bishops in communion with him
- 17. most recent ecumenical councils of the catholic church
- 20. office of the pope
- 21. "helper" ordained to assisted the bishops and priests in the mission of the Church
- 22. home church of the bishop
- 24. those who have received the Sacrament of Holy Orders
- 25. highest rank
Down
- 1. definitive list of the books of the bible
- 2. catholic bishops today trace their authority directly to the Apostles
- 5. territory within a diocese with its own church and congregation, in the care of a priest
- 6. sacrament by which men are ordained as bishops, priests, or deacons
- 7. office of the bishop
- 8. confers the grace it signifies
- 11. literally means "in the person of christ"
- 13. oikoumene; from the whole inhabited world
- 14. territory and churches under a bishop's jurisdiction
- 15. obligation of the faithful to accept teachings of the Magisterium
- 18. papal advisor and elector
- 19. successor of St. Peter, Bishop of Rome
- 20. state of final purification
- 22. gathering of cardinals to elect a pope
- 23. the "sacred order" of teaching authority in the Catholic Church