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Abbreviators, Ecclesiastical
1910 New Catholic Dictionary
Officials of the Holy See employed in abbreviating papal documents. They were organized into a college under Pope Pius II, reduced by Pope Pius VII to seventeen prelates, six lay or clerical substitutes and one sub-substitute, and let disappear entirely under Pope Saint Pius X.
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Entry for 'Abbreviators, Ecclesiastical'. 1910 New Catholic Dictionary. https://www.studylight.org/dictionaries/eng/ncd/a/abbreviators-ecclesiastical.html. 1910.