canonical age
Americannoun
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Both Fellay and Galarreta are also under the canonical age requirement of 35 for bishops.
From Time Magazine Archive
As he was only twenty-three, and the canonical age for ordination is twenty-four, the Bishop of Treviso wrote to Rome to obtain a dispensation.
From Pope Pius the Tenth by Forbes, F. A. (Frances Alice)
Monsieur," said Ursule, a woman of canonical age, conducting the Abbe de Rastignac by the gallery through the garden, "Monsieur Bonnet told me to ask if you had breakfasted.
From The Village Rector by Wormeley, Katharine Prescott
As he was not yet of canonical age to possess even one bishopric, not to mention three of the greatest in the empire, the Pope refused to confirm his nomination except for an enormous sum.
From Luther Examined and Reexamined A Review of Catholic Criticism and a Plea for Revaluation by Dau, W. H. T. (William Herman Theodore)
That son was now the Reverend Thomas Beach, Rector of Kencote, to which preferment the Squire had appointed him nearly thirty years before, when he was only just of canonical age to receive it.
From The Squire's Daughter Being the First Book in the Chronicles of the Clintons by Marshall, Archibald
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