Encyclopedic Dictionary of Bible and Theology

provision (Latin: providere, to take care, provide) A general term, used in ecclesiastical language to denote any concession of an ecclesiastical office. In the Church there are many offices held by clerics, and the general designation of the particular cleric to an office is called provision. Free appointment or collation, election, postulation, etc., are simply … Continue reading “Provision”

Provisio Canonica SEE PROVISION. Fuente: Cyclopedia of Biblical, Theological and Ecclesiastical Literature

Proving * For PROVING (elenchos) see REPROOF, A Fuente: Vine’s Dictionary of New Testament Words

Provincial Synod SEE SYNOD. Fuente: Cyclopedia of Biblical, Theological and Ecclesiastical Literature

Provincial Seminary of Saint Mary of the Lake Mundelein, Illinois. Founded in 1921. Conducted by secular clergy and Jesuits. Fuente: New Catholic Dictionary

Provincial Councils is the name given to the synods held by the bishops of a single ecclesiastical province, and presided over by the metropolitan. The ecclesiastical superior of the province convokes the council. The resolutions of provincial councils in matters of discipline have legal force only within the limits of their own province. In respect … Continue reading “Provincial Councils”

provincial council A consultative and deliberative assembly of the bishops, certain other prelates, and clerics, which should be convoked in each ecclesiastical province at least every 20 years to discuss and decree whatever may appear conducive in its particular territory to the growth of the faith, the moderation of morals, the correction of abuses, the … Continue reading “Provincial Council”

provincial A religious superior exercising general supervision over a number of religious houses which form a division of the order or congregation, called a province. The provincial superior is subject in turn to the superior general. His term, by Canon Law, should not extend beyond six years. Fuente: New Catholic Dictionary Provincial An officer acting … Continue reading “Provincial”

province, ecclesiastical A territorial administrative division in the Church, consisting of several dioceses under an archbishop, the metropolitan, who derives this dignity from his own episcopal see, to which by designation or approbation of the Roman Pontiff it is attached. Provincial organization was early favored by doctrinal and disciplinary troubles necessitating frequent regional synods of … Continue reading “Province, Ecclesiastical”

Province The word prouincia, the derivation of which is unknown, has originally no territorial application. Prouincia is in fact a sphere of duty, whether that be in an office or court, like that of the urban praetor at Rome, or that of a governor of a vast district. It is only because it came to … Continue reading “Province”