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Orangemen
.
.
Members of the
Protestant
fraternal Orange Order, prominent in N. Ireland, concerned to defend Protestant ascendancy. The order was founded in 1795, named from William III, William of Orange. (Orange is a town on the river Rhône, once capital of a small principality from which William's ancestors took their name.) The marches of the Orangemen in N. Ireland are a public manifestation of what the
Roman Catholic
population perceives as a determination of at least some Protestants to remain dominant and a part of the United Kingdom.
Protestant
fraternal Orange Order, prominent in N. Ireland, concerned to defend Protestant ascendancy. The order was founded in 1795, named from William III, William of Orange. (Orange is a town on the river Rhône, once capital of a small principality from which William's ancestors took their name.) The marches of the Orangemen in N. Ireland are a public manifestation of what the
Roman Catholic
population perceives as a determination of at least some Protestants to remain dominant and a part of the United Kingdom.
Orange People
(Indian-based religious movement):
(Indian-based religious movement):
Orange/saffron robes:
Oratorio
.
.
The setting of a religious (usually Christian) text to music; the setting is extensive, with soloists, chorus, and instruments. It is not, however, like opera, in that it is not staged or acted out.
Oratory
,
Oratorians
,
Oratorians
(Lat.,
oratorium
, ‘place of prayer’).
Roman Catholic
place of worship other than a parish church, and the name of those belonging to a community based on an Oratory. From the oratory of S. Girolamo in Rome came the Oratory of St Philip Neri, a community of priests whose constitution was ratified by Pope Paul V in 1612. Oratories spread rapidly: they are congregations of secular priests living in community without vows, the more wealthy, therefore, being expected to support themselves.
oratorium
, ‘place of prayer’).
Roman Catholic
place of worship other than a parish church, and the name of those belonging to a community based on an Oratory. From the oratory of S. Girolamo in Rome came the Oratory of St Philip Neri, a community of priests whose constitution was ratified by Pope Paul V in 1612. Oratories spread rapidly: they are congregations of secular priests living in community without vows, the more wealthy, therefore, being expected to support themselves.
Order of Ethiopia
.
.
A semi-independent, mainly Xhosa, section within the
Anglican
Church in S. Africa. James M. Dwane (1851–1916), an ordained
Methodist
minister, seceded in 1894 to the Ethiopian Church (see
ETHIOPIANISM
) and drew this Church into the orbit of the black African Methodist Episcopal Church in the USA, through which he became ordained as ‘vicar-bishop’. He was ordained deacon in 1900 and priest in 1909. The Order retained a peculiar extra-parochial position, with its own synod and finance, and a provincial, but no bishop. Periodic negotiations failed to find a solution until 1983, when Siggibo Dwana, principal of an Anglican theological college, was consecrated as bishop, and he and the Order, now with some 50,000 members, have full diocesan rights within the Church.
Anglican
Church in S. Africa. James M. Dwane (1851–1916), an ordained
Methodist
minister, seceded in 1894 to the Ethiopian Church (see
ETHIOPIANISM
) and drew this Church into the orbit of the black African Methodist Episcopal Church in the USA, through which he became ordained as ‘vicar-bishop’. He was ordained deacon in 1900 and priest in 1909. The Order retained a peculiar extra-parochial position, with its own synod and finance, and a provincial, but no bishop. Periodic negotiations failed to find a solution until 1983, when Siggibo Dwana, principal of an Anglican theological college, was consecrated as bishop, and he and the Order, now with some 50,000 members, have full diocesan rights within the Church.
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