Definition of "ordinaries" []

• Plural form of ordinary. (noun)

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• "Its "ordinaries" -- church jargon for a bishop with full authority -- will "usually be appointed from among former Anglican clergy" and may be either an unmarried bishop or a married priest."
• "These faculties are no longer accorded only to the bishop in his own person but to the ordinaries, that is to say, to the bishop, to his successor, to the administrator pro tem of the diocese, and to the vicar general, to vicars apostolic, prefects, etc."
• "Thus when the Holy See is vacant, the ordinaries are the College of Cardinals and the cardinal camerlengo; when a diocese the chapter and also the vicar capitular, and in general the interimary administrator; so, too, the vicar, for religious orders."