ordinary

Dictionary: or·di·nar·y (ôr'dn-ĕr'ē) pronunciation

adj.

Commonly encountered; usual. See synonyms at common.
1. Of no exceptional ability, degree, or quality; average.
2. Of inferior quality; second-rate.
Having immediate rather than delegated jurisdiction, as a judge.
Mathematics. Designating a differential equation containing no more than one independent variable.

n., pl., -ies.

The usual or normal condition or course of events: Nothing out of the ordinary occurred.
Law.
1. A judge or other official with immediate rather than delegated jurisdiction.
2. The judge of a probate court in some states of the United States.
often Ordinary Ecclesiastical.
1. The part of the Mass that remains unchanged from day to day.
2. A division of the Roman Breviary containing the unchangeable parts of the office other than the Psalms.
3. A cleric, such as the residential bishop of a diocese, with ordinary jurisdiction over a specified territory.
Heraldry. One of the simplest and commonest charges, such as the bend and the cross.
Chiefly British.
1. A complete meal provided at a fixed price.
2. A tavern or an inn providing such a meal.

[Middle English ordinarie, from Old French, from Latin ōrdinārius, from ōrdō, ōrdin-, order.]

ordinariness or'di·nar'i·ness n.

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adjective

Commonly encountered: average, common, commonplace, general, normal, typical, usual. See surprise/expect.
Being of no special quality or type: average, common, commonplace, cut-and-dried, formulaic, garden, garden-variety, indifferent, mediocre, plain, routine, run-of-the-mill, standard, stock, undistinguished, unexceptional, unremarkable. See good/bad, usual/unusual.

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Definition: average; not distinctive
Antonyms: different, distinctive, extraordinary, remarkable, special, unique, unusual

adj

Definition: common, regular
Antonyms: abnormal, extraordinary, irregular, uncommon

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In the Mass, the parts that are used every day, as distinct from the proper. The ordinary consists of the Kyrie, Gloria, Credo, Sanctus, and Agnus Dei.

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IN BRIEF: The usual event of things.

The difference between ordinary and extraordinary is that little extra.

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"Hierarch" redirects here. For the characters in the video game series Halo, see Hierarchs (Halo). For other possible uses, see Hierarchy (disambiguation).

For other uses, see Ordinary (disambiguation).

Pope Pius XI, depicted in this window at Cathedral of Our Lady of Peace, Honolulu, was ordinary of the universal Catholic Church and local ordinary of Rome. At the same time, Bishop Stephen Alencastre, Apostolic Vicar of the Sandwich Islands, was the local ordinary of Hawaii.

In those hierarchically organised churches of Western Christianity which have an ecclesiastical law system, an ordinary is an officer of the church who by reason of office has ordinary power to execute the church's laws^[1]. The term comes from the Latin word ordinarius. In Eastern Christianity, a corresponding officer is called a hierarch^[2], which comes from the Greek word ἱεράρχης meaning "priestly ruler". In common usage in the Episcopal Church, an ordinary is a diocesan bishop.

1 Ordinary power
2 Catholic usage
- 2.1 Local ordinaries/hierarchs
- 2.2 Other ordinaries/hierarchs
3 References
4 See also

Ordinary power

In canon law, the power to govern the church is divided into the power to make laws (legislative), enforce the laws (executive), and to judge based on the law (judicial)^[3]. A person exercises power to govern either because the person holds an office to which the law grants governing power or because someone with governing power has delegated it to the person. Ordinary power is the former, while the latter is delegated power^[4]. The office with ordinary power could possess the governing power itself (proper ordinary power) or instead it could have the ordinary power of agency, the inherent power to exercise someone else's power (vicarious ordinary power)^[5].

The law vesting ordinary power could either be ecclesiastical law, i.e. the positive enactments that the church has established for itself, or divine law, i.e. the laws which the church believes were given to it by God^[6]. As an example of divinely instituted ordinaries, Roman Catholics believe that when Jesus established the Church he in turn established the episcopate and the Primacy of Simon Peter and endowed the offices with power to rule the Church^[7]. Thus, in the Roman Catholic Church, the office of successor of Simon Peter and the office of diocesan bishop possess their ordinary power even in the absence of positive enactments from the Church.

Many officers possess ordinary power but, due to their lack of ordinary executive power, are not called ordinaries. The best example of this phenomenon is the office of judicial vicar, a.k.a. officialis. The judicial vicar only has authority through his office to exercise the diocesan bishop's power to judge cases^[8]. Though the vicar has vicarious ordinary judicial power, he is not an ordinary because he lacks ordinary executive power. A vicar general, however, has authority through his office to exercise the diocesan bishop's executive power^[9]. He is therefore an ordinary because of this vicarious ordinary executive power.

Catholic usage

Local ordinaries/hierarchs

Local ordinaries exercise ordinary power and are ordinaries in particular churches^[10]. The following clerics are local ordinaries:

Supreme Pontiff (pope) (As head of the Latin Church and the universal Catholic Church, the pope is a local ordinary (and therefore also an ordinary).^[11])
Diocesan/eparchial bishops (eparchs) and all prelates who head a particular church or a personal prelature
Apostolic vicars, exarchs, apostolic prefects, and ecclesiastical superiors who head a mission sui iuris
Administrators sede vacante, apostolic administrators, and diocesan administrators
Vicars general and protosyncelli
Episcopal vicars and syncelli

Other ordinaries/hierarchs

There are other clerics who are also ordinaries (Latin Church) or hierarchs (Eastern Churches), but are not local ordinaries (Latin Church) or local hierarchs (Eastern Churches):

Patriarchs, major archbishops, and metropolitans who head sui juris churches
Superiors of religious institutes and of societies of apostolic like, including abbots and major superiors over their respective religious orders^[12]

References

^ c. 134 § 1, Code of Canon Law, 1983
^ c. 984, Code of Canons of the Oriental Churches, 1992
^ c. 135 §1, Code of Canon Law, 1983
^ Id. c. 131 §1
^ Id. § 2
^ "Ordinary," The Catholic Encyclopedia
^ See Lumen gentium and Pastor aeternus
^ c. 1420 § 1, Code of Canon Law (1983)
^ Id. c. 479 § 1
^ Id.c.134 §§1–2
^ "Canon 134, §1 and §2". 1983 Code of Canon Law. Libreria Editrice Vaticana. http://www.vatican.va/archive/ENG1104/__P1D.HTM. Retrieved 21 August 2009.
^ "Canon 134, §2". 1983 Code of Canon Law. Libreria Editrice Vaticana. http://www.vatican.va/archive/ENG1104/__P1D.HTM. Retrieved 21 August 2009.

Ελληνική (Greek)
adj. - συνήθης, κοινός, συνηθισμένος, κανονικός, της αράδας
n. - (Βρετ., απαρχ.) ταβέρνα, οικοσημολογικό διακριτικό, (θρησκ.) κανονικός κληρικός, (πληθ.) (οικον.) κοινές μετοχές ή οι κάτοχοί τους, (καθομ.) υποχρεωτικό εδεσματολόγιο (κν. ταμπλ ντ'οτ)

idioms:

ordinary shares (οικον.) κοινές μετοχές
out of the ordinary εξαιρετικός, ασυνήθης, υπερβολικός

Italiano (Italian)
ordinario, consueto

idioms:

ordinary shares azioni ordinarie
out of the ordinary straordinario, fuori dal comune

Português (Portuguese)
adj. - ordinário, costumeiro, medíocre
n. - autoridade judiciária

idioms:

ordinary shares ações ordinárias
out of the ordinary fora do ordinário

Русский (Russian)
обычный, заурядный

idioms:

ordinary shares обычные акции
out of the ordinary необычный, незаурядный, необычно, незаурядно

Español (Spanish)
adj. - ordinario, corriente, común, habitual, normal, regular, usual
n. - ordinario

idioms:

in ordinary en ejercicio, residente, no extraordinario, de cámara
ordinary life insurance póliza de seguro ordinaria
ordinary shares acciones ordinarias
out of the ordinary excepcional, extraordinario, fuera de lo común

Svenska (Swedish)
adj. - vanlig, bruklig, vardaglig
n. - (förmåga) utöver det vanliga, ordinarie, (kyrkl)ordinarius, stamaktie

中文（简体）(Chinese (Simplified))
平常的, 平凡的, 普通的, 推事

idioms:

ordinary shares 普通股
out of the ordinary 与众不同, 不寻常的, 特殊的

中文（繁體）(Chinese (Traditional))
adj. - 平常的, 平凡的, 普通的
n. - 推事

idioms:

ordinary shares 普通股
out of the ordinary 與眾不同, 不尋常的, 特殊的

한국어 (Korean)
adj. - 보통의, 얼굴이 변변찮은, 직할의
n. - 보통의 것, 정식(식사), 보통무늬, 보통주식

日本語 (Japanese)
adj. - 普通の, 通常の, 平凡な, 直轄の, 正規の
n. - 昔の自転車, 普通紋, 定食, 教誨師

idioms:

ordinary shares 普通株
out of the ordinary 並はずれた

العربيه (Arabic)
‏(صفه) اعتيادي (الاسم) شىء عادي, كاهن كاثوليكي بصلاحيات محددة‏

עברית (Hebrew)
adj. - ‮רגיל‬
n. - ‮שופט בשיפוט מהיר (בריטניה), הגמון, חלקי התפילה בכנסייה שאינם משתנים מיום ליום‬

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Ordinary power

Catholic usage

Local ordinaries/hierarchs

Other ordinaries/hierarchs

References

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