1. The stole worn by deacons of 'the Eastern Church.
2. A collection of private devotions, also a kind of scarf attached to the pastoral staff of an Eastern bishop to facilitate holding.
3. St. Philip Neri in 1564.
' 4. An ecclesiastical writer (e. 186-254.) 5. A cleric holding jurisdiction attached by the law to an ecclesiastical office: usually the diocesan bishop.
6. A confessor appointed to hear the confessions of religious, over and above their regular confessor.