Quiz 1 of 50 -- Ecclesiastical Terms

Number Question Answer Your answer
1 defense and proof of Christianity or other doctrine 1 pluvial
2 apologetics
3 refectory
4 suffragan
5 feretory
2 one who takes a religious vow of silence 1 ridel
2 procathedral
3 unalist
4 passalorynchite
5 antipedobaptism
3 relating to religious ritual initiation 1 wimple
2 viaticum
3 mystagogical
4 cincture
5 credence
4 hymn or verse of praise to God 1 kenosis
2 scriptorium
3 doxology
4 vesturer
5 pericope
5 layman living in a religious community under modified rule 1 compaternity
2 oblate
3 amice
4 postulator
5 cingulum
6 singer of psalms 1 oculus
2 psalmodist
3 cruet
4 enchiridion
5 almoner
7 prayer service held at 9 a.m. 1 paraclete
2 terce
3 canticle
4 classis
5 saltire
8 small room or closet in a church 1 pulpitum
2 zeta
3 aspergillum
4 sepulchre
5 regula
9 space within an arch; arched recess at entrance of cathedral 1 custos
2 staurolatry
3 tympanum
4 sticharion
5 parvis
10 candidate for religious confirmation 1 ablegate
2 confirmand
3 marrano
4 ubiquitarianism
5 tropology
Number Question Answer Your answer
11 loose sleeveless robes worn by Anglican bishops 1 angelus
2 cilice
3 canoness
4 chimere
5 tympanum
12 semicircular bench beside episcopal throne; outdoor bench or recess 1 exedra
2 breviary
3 consistory
4 prebend
5 pentateuch
13 asking or supplication, especially in an ecclesiastical sense 1 rogation
2 frontal
3 hagioscope
4 narthex
5 solifidianism
14 one who refuses to attend Catholic church services; nonconformist 1 recusant
2 pax
3 bursary
4 martyrology
5 florilegium
15 vessel for holding holy water 1 procathedral
2 catechumen
3 oculus
4 liturgician
5 stoup
16 thin sheet-like vestment 1 decanal
2 pannicle
3 tonsure
4 passalorynchite
5 sepulchre
17 plate; metal disk used to hold Communion bread 1 ridel
2 sticheron
3 liturgician
4 paten
5 antiphon
18 short hymn used as response 1 deodate
2 cathisma
3 misericord
4 orphrey
5 simony
19 denial of validity of infant baptism 1 antipedobaptism
2 mandriarch
3 hyperdulia
4 tunicle
5 compline
20 prayer service held at noon 1 marrano
2 tritheism
3 transubstantiation
4 sext
5 requiem
Number Question Answer Your answer
21 monk or almoner who prays for benefactor 1 feria
2 beadsman
3 calefactory
4 indult
5 festilogy
22 largest part of church where congregation sits 1 oratory
2 cingulum
3 nave
4 discalced
5 sigillum
23 anteroom to a chapel or church 1 kirking
2 antechapel
3 labarum
4 modalism
5 mersion
24 acolyte 1 accensor
2 eschaton
3 piscina
4 autotheism
5 adiaphoron
25 churchwomen who live platonically with celibate men 1 agapetae
2 tabernacle
3 biretta
4 nones
5 exarch
26 theological doctrine of religious unification 1 eirenics
2 cellarer
3 reliquary
4 ambo
5 adoptionism
27 prayer 1 lectern
2 prothonotary
3 theotokos
4 orison
5 kerygma
28 temple; inner cell of a temple 1 chevet
2 naos
3 antipedobaptism
4 cellarer
5 introit
29 bearing a god 1 confiteor
2 lection
3 deiparous
4 monstrance
5 lappet
30 wide cloth covering neck and shoulders worn by nuns 1 custos
2 guimpe
3 labarum
4 wicket
5 festilogy
Number Question Answer Your answer
31 church official in charge of vessels and the sacristy 1 chancery
2 adytum
3 kyrie
4 sacristan
5 agapeistic
32 vessel for sprinkling holy water 1 aspergillum
2 viaticum
3 tabernacle
4 terce
5 predella
33 administering communion by dipping bread into wine 1 laicism
2 intinction
3 mandorla
4 pallium
5 fenestella
34 opening in wall to enable viewing of altar 1 altarage
2 eremite
3 hagioscope
4 diaconicon
5 superhumeral
35 ornamental container for storing Communion bread and wine 1 feretory
2 tabernacle
3 hyperdulia
4 catechumen
5 obit
36 ornamental cloth hung behind and above an altar 1 holobaptism
2 dossal
3 shrive
4 sticharion
5 campanile
37 denial of the divinity of the Holy Ghost 1 consultor
2 thurifer
3 messianism
4 sacrarium
5 pnematomachy
38 prayer stool or kneeling bench in a church 1 dossal
2 sacristy
3 simony
4 euchology
5 prie-dieu
39 sacrament of baptism in Eastern churches 1 mersion
2 glebe
3 lavabo
4 chrismation
5 Mariology
40 vessel for burning incense in religious rituals 1 solifidianism
2 glebe
3 censer
4 rescript
5 precentor
Number Question Answer Your answer
41 small entrance or porch to a church 1 oblate
2 narthex
3 prie-dieu
4 curate
5 dalmatic
42 set of responses sung or said after liturgical reading 1 taperer
2 fenestella
3 responsory
4 requiem
5 terce
43 belief in the wrongness of infant baptism 1 pannicle
2 compaternity
3 catabaptism
4 matins
5 panegyricon
44 veneration of the Virgin Mary above saints and angels 1 hyperdulia
2 predella
3 rescript
4 autocephality
5 hassock
45 land tenure requiring religious obligations on part of tenant 1 frankalmoign
2 christophany
3 thurible
4 rood
5 stylite
46 not having received the Eucharist shortly before death 1 catabaptism
2 unhouseled
3 autocephality
4 monkery
5 ambry
47 prayer of supplication in responsive style 1 poppyhead
2 conventicle
3 litany
4 rogation
5 tonsure
48 assistant bishop 1 frankalmoign
2 suffragan
3 recusant
4 eparchy
5 ambo
49 church choir led by a cantor 1 churching
2 invination
3 undercroft
4 schola
5 nipter
50 monastery or convent 1 ultramontane
2 pnematomachy
3 tonsure
4 cenoby
5 ambulatory
Number Question Answer Your answer
51 priest using leavened bread during communion 1 beadle
2 zymite
3 staurolatry
4 cassock
5 terce
52 keeper of vestments 1 zeta
2 paraclete
3 thurifer
4 vesturer
5 soteriology
53 collection of sermons for Orthodox church festivals 1 nones
2 bursary
3 anele
4 panegyricon
5 donative
54 church land granted to clergyman 1 amice
2 faldstool
3 jube
4 glebe
5 caesaropapism
55 steward of a college or monastery; purveyor 1 incardination
2 manciple
3 lavra
4 sacramentarianism
5 anele
56 located on the north side of the choir in a church 1 cantorial
2 orison
3 orphrey
4 adytum
5 parclose
57 doctrine of opposition to clergy and priests 1 tympanum
2 kyrie
3 laicism
4 diphysitism
5 datary
58 belief that one is God incarnate or that one is Christ 1 deiparous
2 exegetic
3 postlude
4 bardocucullus
5 autotheism
59 treatise on ecclesiastical festivals 1 lustration
2 reredos
3 epistoler
4 responsory
5 festilogy
60 decapitated saint depicted with head tucked under arm 1 lappet
2 adytum
3 proseuche
4 ubiquitarianism
5 cephalophore
Number Question Answer Your answer
61 representation of Virgin Mary with dead Christ across her knees 1 camerlengo
2 catabaptism
3 catholicos
4 dossal
5 pieta
62 seal of the confession 1 altarage
2 compline
3 almoner
4 sigillum
5 laicism
63 second coming of Christ 1 alb
2 camerlengo
3 mozzetta
4 parousia
5 locum
64 monk; member of religious group 1 cenobite
2 rood
3 paten
4 transept
5 decretal
65 shrine for relics during a procession or for a funeral bier 1 prothonotary
2 collegialism
3 feretory
4 panegyricon
5 schola
66 doctrine of infant baptism 1 paraclete
2 paedobaptism
3 chrisom
4 guimpe
5 thurible
67 south of the Alps; supporting the Pope 1 canoness
2 sexton
3 ecclesiastry
4 sext
5 ultramontane
68 burning of a heretic 1 diaconicon
2 auto-da-fe
3 monial
4 cellarer
5 manciple
69 one who bears a taper during a religious procession 1 taperer
2 verger
3 agapeistic
4 invination
5 sacerdotalism
70 a monastery sitting room 1 archimandrite
2 cruet
3 homolegomena
4 calefactory
5 dulia
Number Question Answer Your answer
71 pertaining to lay people rather than clergy 1 corporal
2 laic
3 hieratical
4 kerygmatic
5 monkery
72 prayer service held in early morning hours 1 bardocucullus
2 internuncio
3 pulpitum
4 accensor
5 matins
73 figurative language; moral interpretation of the Bible 1 tropology
2 ultramontane
3 agrapha
4 apse
5 scriptorium
74 excessive devotion to martyrs 1 reredos
2 incardination
3 martyrolatry
4 cincture
5 Mariology
75 upper storey of a church 1 tester
2 anamnesis
3 sacrarium
4 capuchin
5 clerestory
76 of or relating to preaching the Gospel 1 kerygmatic
2 indulgence
3 liturgician
4 concelebrate
5 campanile
77 a place of worship for seamen; nonconformist chapel 1 autotheism
2 bethel
3 chrismation
4 apocrisiary
5 responsory
78 ledge or seat in church to lean against while standing 1 retable
2 deodate
3 misericord
4 doxology
5 tippet
79 register or calendar of saints' days 1 prime
2 agapeistic
3 mandorla
4 antipedobaptism
5 menology
80 ecclesiastical robe or other outer vestment 1 rood
2 laicisation
3 dalmatic
4 oratory
5 osculatory
Number Question Answer Your answer
81 vestment like an alb worn by Orthodox priests 1 tonsure
2 sticharion
3 adytum
4 kirking
5 eschaton
82 part of church reserved for officiating clergy 1 cathisma
2 decanal
3 presbytery
4 narthex
5 alb
83 unquestioning or dogmatic religious devotion 1 deodate
2 ultramontane
3 exarch
4 pietism
5 stole
84 small door forming part of larger door of a church or castle 1 postulator
2 litany
3 simony
4 wicket
5 laic
85 reminiscence; prayer recalling death and resurrection of Jesus 1 scapular
2 dalmatic
3 anamnesis
4 baptistery
5 requiescat
86 consecrated or holy oil 1 chrism
2 advowson
3 oblate
4 sticheron
5 regula
87 to gird or surround; belt worn around ecclesiastical vestment 1 cenacle
2 ecclesiastry
3 tetragrammaton
4 confirmand
5 cincture
88 secret or illegal church assembly 1 mystagogical
2 conventicle
3 absconce
4 lavatory
5 reliquary
89 affairs of the church 1 paraclete
2 burse
3 sext
4 alb
5 ecclesiastry
90 bishop or abbot of superior rank 1 prelate
2 parousia
3 obit
4 lavabo
5 thurible
Number Question Answer Your answer
91 right of presentation to church living 1 autocephality
2 diptych
3 advowson
4 viaticum
5 poppyhead
92 peddler of religious tracts and books 1 soteriology
2 lauds
3 colporteur
4 pannicle
5 oblation
93 church associated with a monastery 1 advowson
2 fanion
3 beadsman
4 hyperdulia
5 minster
94 white woollen band symbolising archbishop's authority 1 chasuble
2 pallium
3 galilee
4 bardocucullus
5 triforium
95 close-fitting ankle-length clergyman's garment 1 cassock
2 coadjutor
3 monergism
4 lappet
5 martyrology
96 prayer service held at dawn following matins 1 missal
2 lauds
3 solifidianism
4 confirmand
5 eparchy
97 sayings of Jesus not found in the canonical gospels 1 antipedobaptism
2 oratory
3 antependium
4 fleche
5 agrapha
98 letter sent by the pope to multiple bishops 1 autotheism
2 hassock
3 discalced
4 encyclical
5 menology
99 prayer said in morning, at noon and at sunset 1 pentateuch
2 ditheletism
3 angelus
4 christophany
5 sacristan
100 anointing as right of consecration or healing; warmth of address 1 holobaptism
2 christophany
3 missal
4 unction
5 pax
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