In Greek practice the title or function of Abbot corresponds to a person who actually serves as the head of a monastery, although the title of the Archimandrite may be given to any celibate priest who could serve as the head of a monastery.

( The etymological convention that verbs derived from Greek roots are spelled with-ize and those from Latin with-ise is preserved in that practice.

In Ancient Greece, the practice of keeping a slave concubine ( Greek " pallakis ") was little recorded but appears throughout Athenian history.

His famous twenty-three catechetical lectures ( Greek Κατηχήσεις ), which he delivered while still a presbyter in 347 or 348, contain instructions on the principal topics of Christian faith and practice, in rather a popular than a scientific manner, full of a warm pastoral love and care for the catechumens to whom they were delivered.

The hexameter came into Latin as an adaptation from Greek long after the practice of singing the epics had faded.

The Greek island of Syros, whose population is divided almost equally between Catholics and Orthodox, is one of the few places where the two Churches share a common date for Easter, with the Catholics accepting the Orthodox date-a practice helping considerably in maintaining good relations between the two communities.

Epicurus ' teachings were introduced into medical philosophy and practice by the Epicurean doctor Asclepiades of Bithynia, who was the first physician who introduced Greek medicine in Rome.

A Gaulish man and a Gaulish woman and a Greek man and a Greek woman were buried alive under the Forum Boarium ... They were lowered into a stone vault, which had on a previous occasion also been polluted by human victims, a practice most repulsive to Roman feelings.

In theological discussions, the practice is sometimes referred to as paedobaptism or pedobaptism from the Greek pais meaning " child ".

His Greek countrymen objected to this practice, as they considered these rituals only suitable to the gods.

Just as colonisation and colonialism have been practiced throughout recorded history, political self-determination, on an individual level, has been documented similarly and cherished highly by collective peoples despite them ; ancient Mesopotamia and the later Greek city-states are early examples of its practice.

As already in Aristotle's definitions, theory is very often contrasted to " practice " ( from Greek praxis, πρᾶξις ) a Greek term for " doing ", which is opposed to theory because pure theory involves no doing apart from itself.

This method resembles the Ancient Greek practice of placing an obolus in the corpse's mouth to pay the toll to cross the River Styx in the underworld ; it has been argued that instead, the coin was intended to ward off any evil spirits from entering the body, and this may have influenced later vampire folklore.

Nevertheless, it is unclear whether the simultaneous sounding of notes was part of ancient Greek musical practice ; " harmonía " may have merely provided a system of classification of the relationships between different pitches.

In the Greek practice, ordinary Compline is chanted on Friday night together with the Akathist to the Theotokos ( Mother of God ).

" Lingard departed from usual Catholic practice by using early Greek manuscripts rather than the Latin Vulgate as the principal basis for the translation.

The device has also appeared in the American television series Star Trek: The Next Generation as the Klingon practice of discommendation ; as a threat in Ancient Greek and Persian culture in Frank Miller's 1998 comic book series 300 and its 2007 film adaptation ; and in the 2004 role playing game Vampire the Requiem.

Early in the 1st century BCE, they adopted the Greek and Roman practice of issuing coinage, adapting the widely imitated gold staters of Philip II of Macedon, in the characteristic Celtic coin metal alloy called billion.

Theurgy ( from Greek θεουργία ) describes the practice of rituals, sometimes seen as magical in nature, performed with the intention of invoking the action or evoking the presence of one or more gods, especially with the goal of uniting with the divine, achieving henosis, and perfecting oneself.

The Eleusinian Mysteries are believed to be of considerable antiquity, deriving from religious practice of the Mycenaean period and thus predating the Greek Dark Ages.

Classical architecture is architecture derived in part from the Greek and Roman architecture of classical antiquity, enriched by classicizing architectural practice in Europe since the Renaissance.

Article 5 allows ethnic Greeks who are stateless ( which, in practice, includes those who voluntarily renounce their nationality ) to obtain citizenship upon application to a Greek consular official.

Apollo shot arrows infected with the plague into the Greek encampment during the Trojan War in retribution for Agamemnon's insult to Chryses, a priest of Apollo whose daughter Chryseis had been captured.

Thus while among his own colleagues he seemed merely a hypocritical and arrogant priest, in his relations with his brother humanists, such as Cosimo de ' Medici, he appeared as the student of classical antiquities and especially of Greek theological authors ".

In Egypt, Solon met a priest of Sais, who translated the history of ancient Athens and Atlantis, recorded on papyri in Egyptian hieroglyphs, into Greek.

In the Orthodox Liturgy, if celebrated in Greek, the priest is addressed by the deacon as Despot even today.

According to First Esdras, a non-canonical Greek translation of the Book of Ezra, he was also a high priest.

* 1907 – Dimitrios Holevas, Greek Orthodox priest, member of the Greek Resistance movement ( d. 2001 )

* 1928 – Father John S. Romanides, Greek priest and professor ( d. 2001 )

* 1789 – Theophilos Kairis, Greek priest and revolutionary ( d. 1853 )

The Latin word was translated into ancient Greek variously: as ἱεροδιδάσκαλος, ἱερονόμος, ἱεροφύλαξ, ἱεροφάντης, or ἀρχιερεύς ( high priest ) The head of the college was known as the Pontifex Maximus ( the greatest pontiff ).

From the Greek paroikia, the dwellingplace of the priest, eighth Archbishop of Canterbury Theodore of Tarsus ( c. 602 – 690 ) applied to the Anglo-Saxon township unit, where it existed, the ecclesiastical term parish.

The word " priest " is ultimately from Greek, via Latin presbyter, the term for " elder ", especially elders of Jewish or Christian communities in Late Antiquity.

The Latin presbyter ultimately represents Greek presbyteros, the regular Latin word for " priest " being sacerdos, corresponding to Greek hiereus.

As well as translating " Et cum spiritu tuo " as " And with your spirit ", which some scholars suggest refers to the gift of the spirit the priest received at ordination, in the Niceno-Constantinopolitan Creed " consubstantial with the Father " was used as a translation of " consubstantialem Patri " ( in Greek " ὁμοούσιον τῷ Πατρί "), instead of " of one Being with the Father " ( or, in the United States only, " one in Being with the Father "), and the phrase, formerly translated as " It will be shed for you and for all so that sins may be forgiven ," was translated literally as " which will be poured out for you and for many for the forgiveness of sins " ( see Pro multis ).

The year is stated as the ninth year of Ptolemy V's reign ( equated with 197 / 196 BC ), and it is confirmed by naming four priests who officiated in that same year: Aëtus son of Aëtus was priest of the divine cults of Alexander the Great and the five Ptolemies down to Ptolemy V himself ; his three colleagues, named in turn in the inscription, led the worship of Berenice Euergetis ( wife of Ptolemy III ), Arsinoe Philadelpha ( wife and sister of Ptolemy II ) and Arsinoe Philopator, mother of Ptolemy V. However, a second date is also given in the Greek and hieroglyphic texts, corresponding to, the official anniversary of Ptolemy's coronation.

It contained translations of certain words — for example Tyndale used " elder " rather than " priest " for the Greek " presbuteros "— and some footnotes which challenged Catholic doctrine.

Saint John of Damascus ( Greek: Ἰωάννης ὁ Δαμασκηνός Iōannēs ho Damaskēnos ; Latin: Iohannes Damascenus ; also known as John Damascene, Χρυσορρόας / Chrysorrhoas, " streaming with gold "— i. e., " the golden speaker ") ( c. 645 or 676 – 4 December 749 ; Arabic: يوحنا الدمشقي Yuḥannā Al Demashqi ) was a Syrian monk and priest.

A somewhat obscure chain of events followed ( the so-called " Moechian controversy ," from the Greek moichos, " adulterer "), in which Theodore initiated a protest against the marriage from the Sakkudion Monastery, and appears to have demanded the excommunication, not only of the priest Joseph, but also of all who had received communion from him, which, as Joseph was a priest of the imperial church, included implicitly the emperor and his court.

An archbishop ( from Greek ἀρχι -, chief, and ἐπίσκοπος, bishop ) is a bishop of higher rank, but not of higher sacramental order above that of the three orders of deacon, priest ( presbyter ), and bishop.

The term priest is derived from the Greek presbyter ( πρεσβύτερος, presbýteros, elder or senior ), but is often used in the sense of sacerdos in particular, i. e., for clergy performing ritual within the sphere of the sacred or numinous communicating with the gods on behalf of the community.

In return for a considerable payment, he has permitted the high priest, Jason, to build a gymnasium in Jerusalem and to introduce the Greek mode of educating young people.