Meaning Of The Word Holy Office

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Holy Office in American English
The Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, a department of the Curia established to investigate and correct unorthodox doctrine
noun: a congregation founded in 1542 to succeed the suppressed Inquisition and entrusted with matters pertaining to faith and morals, as the judgment of heresy, the application of canonical punishment, and the examination of books and prohibition of those held

Holy Office in British English
noun: a congregation established in 1542 as the final court of appeal in heresy trials; it now deals with matters of doctrine

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