Site Glossary

A sixth-century founder of many churches and monasteries in Ireland, including the monastery and school at Iona. Feast day: June 9.

Distinctive clothes worn by clergy that make the wearer identifiable as a member of the clergy.

Formerly located in Berkeley, California, CDSP is a hybrid-residency seminary operated in partnership with Trinity Church Wall Street.

Area of the church set apart for the altar, lectern, pulpit, credence table, and seats for officiating and assisting ministers.

To perfume with the smoke of aromatic incense.

The bishop or priest who presides at the Eucharist and at holy baptism, and at other sacramental and liturgical occasions such as the celebration and blessing of a marriage.

See Agnes of Rome

A 14th-century Italian mystic and spiritual writer who devoted her life to serving the poor and converting sinners. Feast day: April 29.

An arrangement in which two or more dioceses, usually from different countries or Anglican Communion provinces, commit to mutual encouragement and prayer, intensified understanding and concern, and the exchange of both spiritual and material resources.

A place or structure for interring the cremated remains of the dead.

A member of the clergy.

The fourth bishop of Rome, who in the first century planted the seed of the theology of apostolic succession. Feast day: Nov. 23.