Holy Orders
Black's Law Dictionary · Henry Campbell Black, M.A. · 1910
Black's Law Dictionary
In ecclesiastical law
The orders of bishops, (including archbishops,) priests, and deacons in the Church of England. The Roman canonists had the orders of bishop, (in which the pope and archbishops were included,) priest, deacon, subdeacon, psalmist, acolyte, exorcist, reader, ostiarius. 3 Steph. Comm. 55, and note a.