Encyclopedic Dictionary of Bible and Theology

Registers Parish were required to be kept as a record of baptisms, marriages, and burials in 1538 by Cromwell, by the royal injunctions of 1547, and the 70th Canon of 1603. Fuente: Cyclopedia of Biblical, Theological and Ecclesiastical Literature

Registers Of Ordination were first ordered to be preserved in 1237 in the bishop’s house or in the cathedral. Fuente: Cyclopedia of Biblical, Theological and Ecclesiastical Literature

Registers SEE DIPTYCHS. Fuente: Cyclopedia of Biblical, Theological and Ecclesiastical Literature

Register REGISTER (i.e. genealogical record).See Genealogy, 2. Fuente: Hastings’ Dictionary of the Bible Register rejis-ter. See GENEALOGY; QUIRINIUS. Fuente: International Standard Bible Encyclopedia

Regis superni nuntia Hymn for Vespers and Matins on 15 October, feast of Saint Theresa. It was written by Pope Urban VIII, and has four translations. The English title given is by D. Donahoe. Fuente: New Catholic Dictionary

Regis, John Francis, Saint Confessor , born Fontcouverte, France, 1597; died at La Louvesc, France, 1640. He entered the Society of Jesus, 1616, and was ordained, 1630. Gifted with a marvelous talent for missions, he labored for the conversion of the Huguenots, assisted the needy, and aided in the rescue of wayward women. On the … Continue reading “Regis, John Francis, Saint”

Regis, Jean Francois a French Jesuit, was born January 31, 1597, at Font-Couverte, Narbonne. In 1616 he joined his order, and intended to go as missionary to Canada. Being, however, denied this by his superiors, he devoted himself entirely to missionary work at home and in churches, chapels, hospitals, prisons, and, in fact, everywhere he … Continue reading “Regis, Jean Francois”

Regis, Jean Baptiste De a French Jesuit and geographer, was born at Istres, in Provence, about 1665, and was sent as a missionary to China about 1700. His scientific attainments gained him a place at court and the favor of the emperor Hang- he, who, in 1707, placed him at the head of a commission … Continue reading “Regis, Jean Baptiste De”

Regionarii The name given in later antiquity and the early Middle Ages to those clerics and officials of the Church of Rome who were attached neither to the papal palace or patriarchium, nor to the titular churches of Rome, but to whom one of the city regions, or wards, was assigned as their official district. … Continue reading “Regionarii”

Region-round-about THE ( ). This term had perhaps originally a more precise and independent meaning than it appears to a reader of the A.V. to possess. It is used by the Sept. as the equivalent of the singular Hebrew word hak- kikkanr (, literally the round), a word the topographical application of which is not … Continue reading “Region Round About”