User:Jnestorius/Ecclesiastic ranks

Category:Holy orders in the Catholic Church Category:Catholic ecclesiastical titles

holy orders
 * (tonsure before holy orders)
 * Minor orders
 * ostiarius (porter/doorkeeper)
 * lector (reader)
 * exorcist
 * acolyte
 * major orders
 * subdeacon
 * deacon
 * priest
 * bishop

cardinal Hierarchy of the Catholic Church
 * patriarch
 * primate
 * major archbishop
 * metropolitan bishop
 * archbishop
 * diocesan bishop
 * ordinary (Catholic Church)
 * suffragan bishop

dean archdeacon canon monsignor

priory monastery abbey friar monk

Consecrated life
 * society of apostolic life
 * institute of consecrated life
 * secular institute
 * religious institute
 * Catholic religious order
 * monastic made up of monks (who may be clerics) and/or nuns who are bound to live and work at their monastery and recite the Liturgy of the Hours in common
 * Mendicant orders made up of friars (clerics or lay people) who, while living and praying in common, may have a more active apostolate, and depend on alms for their life
 * canons regular made up of canons (clerics) and canonesses regular, who sing the liturgy in choir and may run parish-like apostolates
 * clerics regular made up of priests who are also vowed religious and who usually have a more active apostolate