exorcist

The Concise Oxford Dictionary of the Christian Church | 2000 | 237 words | Copyright

exorcist. The second of the traditional Minor Orders. The duties of the exorcist came to include the imposition of hands on ‘energumens’ and the exorcizing of catechumens. In the RC Church the office was suppressed in 1972.

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