Ostiarius
nounverified·updated May 18, 2026
the lowest of the minor Holy Orders in the unreformed Western Church but now suppressed by the Roman Catholic Church
Classifications
Entity Type
Unknown—glossary_import_default_pending_classifier
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Sensitivity
unclassified
Information Class
unclassified
Variants
- synonym
- doorkeeper
- plural
- Ostiariuses
- possessive
- Ostiarius's
- pluralpossessive
- Ostiariuses'