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Antivari

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So called from its position opposite to Bari in Italy; the Catholic archiepiscopal see of Montenegro.

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Antipope

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A false claimant of the Holy See in opposition to a pontiff canonically elected.

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Antipodes

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Speculations concerning the rotundity of the earth and the possible existence of human beings "with their feet turned towards ours" were of interest to the Fathers of the Early Church only in so far as they seemed to encroach upon the fundamental Christian dogma of the unity of the human race, and the consequent universality of original sin and redemption.

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Antiphonary, Gregorian

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Discovered in a Montpellier manuscript of the tenth or eleventh century.

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Antiphonary

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One of the present liturgical books intended for use in the liturgical choir, and originally characterized, by the assignment to it principally of the antiphons used in various parts of the Roman liturgy.

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Antiphon (in the Greek Church)

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Socrates, the church historian (Hist. Eccl., VI, viii), says that St. Ignatius, Bishop of Antioch, the third in succession from St. Peter in that see, once had a vision of angels singing the praises of the Trinity in alternating hymns, and remembering the vision, gave this form of singing to the Church of Antioch.

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Antiphon (in Greek Liturgy)

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The Greek Liturgy uses antiphons, not only in the Office, but also in the Mass, at Vespers, and at all the canonical Hours.

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Antiphon

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One or more psalm verses or sentences from Holy Scripture which are sung or recited before and after each psalm and the Magnificat during Matins and Vespers.

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Antiochene Liturgy

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The family of liturgies originally used in the Patriarchate of Antioch begins with that of the Apostolic Constitutions; then follow that of St. James in Greek, the Syrian Liturgy of St. James, and the other Syrian Anaphorus.

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Antioch

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Provides information on two places by this name.

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Antinomianism

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The heretical doctrine that Christians are exempt from the obligations of moral law.

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Antinoe

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A titular see of the Thebaid, now Esneh or Esench, a city in Egypt.

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Antimensium

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Consecrated corporal of a kind used only in the Greek Rite.

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Antigonish

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The shiretown of the county of the same name in Nova Scotia.

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Antidoron

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The remains of the loaves or cakes from which the various portions are cut for consecration in the Mass, according to the Greek Rite, are gathered up on a plate, in the sanctuary and kept upon the prothesis, during the celebration of the Mass.

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Antidicomarianites

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An Eastern sect which flourished about A. D. 200 to 400, and which was so designated as being the "opponents of Mary".

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Antichrist

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Defines the word according to its biblical and ecclesiastical usage.

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Anthropomorphism, Anthropomorphites

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A term used in its widest sense to signify the tendency of man to conceive the activities of the external world as the counterpart of his own.

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