sacred order

American  

noun

1. Roman Catholic Church. major order.

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Etymology

Origin of sacred order

First recorded in 1720–30

Example Sentences

This show, organized by the museum’s chief curator, Stacy C. Hollander, proves Hitchcock to be an artificer as much as an observer, imagining dramatic new ways to express the world’s beauty and, as she saw it, its sacred order.

From New York Times

They maintain a sacred order, she'd said.

From Literature

Alyse Viggiano will be ordained to the Sacred Order of Priests by the Rt.

From Washington Post

Two women from the Eternal Sacred Order of the Cherubim and Seraphim, in Nigeria, wearing matching blue dresses and head scarves, walked shoeless into the Aedicule, crossing the Chapel of the Angel, with its walls of elaborately carved marble and proclamations in Greek.

From New York Times

I won’t quit because my colleagues and I are part of a sacred order, bound to seek out and profess truth, no matter how complicated or unappealing that truth might be.

From Slate