Encyclopedic Dictionary of Bible and Theology

Chancery, Diocesan A branch of administration that handles all written documents used in the government of a diocese . Fuente: New Catholic Dictionary Chancery, Diocesan That branch of administration which handles all written documents used in the official government of a diocese. It is in the diocesan chancery that, under the direction of the bishop … Continue reading “Chancery, Diocesan”

Chancery, Apostolic The papal office that drafts and issues the more important documents emanating from the Holy See. These are the Bulls appointing bishops and others named in Consistory to high office; and the constitutions erecting or dividing dioceses and provinces or setting up cathedral or collegiate chapters , or dealing with matters of importance … Continue reading “Chancery, Apostolic”

Chancels (cancelli) are screens, often of great beauty and richness, set round an altar, or the choir, or tombs of saints. The original chancels were those which divided the choir from the nave, forming a line of demarcation between the clergy and the laity. Leo III erected a chancel of pure silver, and Stephen IV … Continue reading “Chancels”

Chancellor, Samuel an English Congregational minister, was born at Kensington, Jan 12,1795. During the greater part of his life he labored at his trade of coach-building, but spent his leisure time in self improvement and diligent study. He was first engaged as a Sunday-school teacher, then in itinerant labors in and around Kensington, twenty-six years, … Continue reading “Chancellor, Samuel”

Chancellor of the Choir is the dignitary is a cathedral next in rank to a precentor, and presides over the readers of the lessons in church, and the schools of the city and cathedral. The office was instituted in England in the 12th century, but in France apparently not until the 13th. The dignitary bore … Continue reading “Chancellor of the Choir”

CHANCELLOR A lay officer under a bishop, who is judge of his court. In the first ages of the church the bishops had those officers, who were called church lawyers, and were bred up in the knowledge of the civil and canon law: their business was to assist the bishop in his diocese. We read … Continue reading “Chancellor”

chancel Part of the choir near the altar of a church, where the officiating clergy stand. The name is derived from cancellus, the screen which formerly divided the choir from the nave. Saint Clement’s, Rome, still preserves the sixth-century screens of the choir and presbyterium. The word sanctuary is now used for the railed enclosure … Continue reading “Chancel”

CHANCE A term we apply to events to denote that they happen without any necessary or foreknown cause. When we say a thing happens by chance, we mean no more than that its cause is unknown to us, and not, as some vainly imagine, that chance itself can be the cause of any thing. “The … Continue reading “Chance”

Chanca, Diego Alvarez (late 15th century ) Physician-in-ordinary to Ferdinand and Isabella, of Castile and Aragon . He accompanied Columbus on his second voyage and his medical treatment saved the lives of those afllicted with malarial fever. The site of one of the first Christian settlements in the New World, Isabella, ten leagues east of … Continue reading “Chanca, Diego Alvarez”

Chananja, Kohen a Jewish writer, who was born Nov. 18, 1757, at Reggio, and died March 29,1834, at Florence, is the author of , on ancient and modern Hebrew poetry (Leghorn, 1793): , Vocabulario Ebraico-Italiano et Ital. Ebraico (Reggio, 1811-12, 2 vols.): , Seu Nova Methodus Versficationis Hebr. (ibid. 1822): , a Hebrew grammar (Venice, … Continue reading “Chananja, Kohen”