cathedra
IPA: kʌθˈidrʌ
noun
- The chair or throne of a bishop.
- The rank of bishop.
- The official chair of some position or office, as of a professor.
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Examples of "cathedra" in Sentences
- An apparent ex cathedra pronouncement.
- The whole article is written ex cathedra.
- Possession of the cathedra of the Bishop of Rome.
- The cathedra of such a bishop was often migratory.
- The 'cathedra' of such a bishop was often migratory.
- Also, a cathedra was placed, as a seat of the Bishop.
- This is the only occasion in which the cathedra is used.
- This is the bishop's cathedra and is often called the throne.
- It houses the cathedra or throne of the Archbishop of Canterbury.
- He sat there, as teachers do in cathedra -- in the chair of instruction.
- The cathedra of Juridical Psychology granted to him was the first in Italy.
- A church building in which a Christian bishop has his official seat; cathedra is Latin for chair.
- A Christian church building in which a bishop has his official seat (cathedra is Latin for chair).
- The word cathedra, so expressive in the language of antiquity, has gradually been replaced in liturgical usage, by throne (thronus) or seat (sedes).
- Her cathedra was a high arm-chair which she never quitted but to be carried to her observatory on the roof of the house, where she kept her astrological tablets and manuscripts.
- The chief Church in a diocese is called a Cathedral because the bishop's cathedra, that is, his seat or throne, is erected in it, and because he celebrates all important feasts and performs all his special duties in it.
- Therefore Peter first sat in that single cathedra, which is the first gift of the Church, to him succeeded Linus … to Damasus, Siricius, who is our contemporary, with whom the world together with us agree in one fellowship of communion by the interchange of letters.
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