PRIESTHOOD


Meaning of PRIESTHOOD in English

transcription, транскрипция: [ pri:sthʊd ]

1.

Priesthood is the position of being a priest or the period of time during which someone is a priest.

He spent the first twenty-five years of his priesthood as an academic.

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2.

The priesthood is all the members of the Christian clergy, especially in a particular Church.

Should the General Synod vote women into the priesthood?

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