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    • IPA: /kənˈfɛsə/
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Substantiv
1.biktfader {en}romersk katolicism

Definitioner

Substantiv

  1. One who confesses faith in Christianity in the face of persecution, but who is not martyred.
  2. One who confesses to having done something wrong.
  3. (Roman Catholicism) A priest who hears confession and then gives absolution

Exempel

  • Confessors provided the troubled Church with an alternative sort of authority based on their sufferings, particularly when arguments began about how and how much to forgive those Christians who had given way to imperial orders – the so-called ‘lapsed’.

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