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
By his talents he obtained an entrance into Caius College, where his exceptional progress obtained for him admission to the ministry in his twenty-first year, two years before the canonical age.
From The World's Great Sermons, Volume 02 Hooker to South by Kleiser, Grenville
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
He was at this time curate of Hoole, near Preston, having recently taken orders in the Church of England, although, according to the received accounts, he had not attained the canonical age.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 13, Slice 6 "Home, Daniel" to "Hortensius, Quintus" by Various
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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