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Ecclesiastical Abbreviators

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 'Ecclesiastical Abbreviators'. 1910 New Catholic Dictionary. https://www.studylight.org/​dictionaries/​eng/​ncd/​e/ecclesiastical-abbreviators.html. 1910.