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Jesuit order   /dʒˈɛʒuɪt ˈɔrdər/   Listen
Jesuit order

noun
1.
A Roman Catholic order founded by Saint Ignatius of Loyola in 1534 to defend Catholicism against the Reformation and to do missionary work among the heathen; it is strongly committed to education and scholarship.  Synonym: Society of Jesus.






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... are thoroughly imbued with this new-old spirit and are leading mankind toward the light. In the church of Rome the movement is typified by men like Father Tyrrell, whose teaching has led to his expulsion from the Jesuit order, but not, so far, from the priesthood. The present condition of the church of Rome is not unhopeful to those who believe as I do that that venerable church has been used of God to great ends in the past ...
— The New Theology • R. J. Campbell



Words linked to "Jesuit order" :   Society of Jesus, monastic order, Jesuit, order



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