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Precedence
1910 New Catholic Dictionary
(Latin: praecedere, to go before)
Superiority of rank. Canonical precedence is determined for individuals by:
- authority of one person over another
- higher rank in the hierarchy of jurisdiction
- higher rank in the hierarchy of orders
- priority of promotion to the same rank of jurisdiction or orders
- seniority of age
Where it is not a question merely of individuals the precedence is as follows: the secular clergy, the religious clergy, the religious of a non-clerical society, the laity. The place of honor is at the end of processions.
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Entry for 'Precedence'. 1910 New Catholic Dictionary. https://www.studylight.org/dictionaries/eng/ncd/p/precedence.html. 1910.