ministerium
Americannoun
noun
Etymology
Origin of ministerium
From Latin, dating back to 1855–60; see origin at ministry
Example Sentences
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The Swedish ministers met with the Germans in the earlier meetings of the ministerium.
From The Organization of the Congregation in the Early Lutheran Churches in America by Schmucker, Beale M.
There is a wider gap, and one implying greater boorishness, between ministerium and métier, or sapiens and sachant, than between druv and drove or agin and against, which last is plainly an arrant superlative.
From The Complete Poetical Works of James Russell Lowell by Lowell, James Russell
Furthermore, the ministerium, the college of pastors, conferred the office and made pastors through ordination, a rite considered essential to the ministry, and without which no one was regarded a lawful and full-fledged pastor.
From American Lutheranism Volume 1: Early History of American Lutheranism and The Tennessee Synod by Bente, F. (Friedrich)
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