Magisterium Definition

măjĭ-stîrē-əm
noun
The authority, office, and power to teach true doctrine by divine guidance, held by the Roman Catholic Church to have been given to itself alone by divine commission; also, the doctrine so taught.
Webster's New World
A body of people having doctrinal authority in a church.
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Other Word Forms of Magisterium

Noun

Singular:
magisterium
Plural:
magisteriums

Origin of Magisterium

  • Latin the office of a teacher or other person in authority from magister master magisterial

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

  • From Latin magisterium (“office of a president, chief; magisterium"), from magister (“master").

    From Wiktionary

Magisterium Sentence Examples

  • It doubtless arose from the proposed forms for the definitions of the primacy and the pontifical magisterium.

  • The same council defines not indeed dogma but faith - inseparable from dogma - as4 (1) revealed, (a) in Scripture or (b) in unwritten tradition, and (2) taught by the church, (a) in formulated decrees, or (b) in her ordinary magisterium.

  • In accord with that principle, the ordinary magisterium of the Pope consists mainly in his preaching and catecheses.

  • It was an imperfect word, but the word of God's own magisterium, a word of ' the Church ' .

  • Here, it will be useful to recall some pronouncements of the Church's Magisterium on Marian devotions.

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