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Meaning of tonsura



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Danilo Enrique Noreña Benítez

tonsura
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It is an inflection of tonsorial. It means order as a priest. It is also shave part of the hair of the head (on the Crown), when it ordered a Catholic priest. Crown.

  



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Alfredo Edgardo Alvarez Ahumada

TONSURA:CEREMONIA THAT IS USED IN THE CLERICAL GRADES OF THE CATHOLIC CHURCH, CASE PART OF THE HAIR, TO RECEIVE THE SACRAMENT OF ORDERS.

  

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Jorge Luis Tovar Díaz

Tonsure: f. preparatory level to receive the minor orders, which confers the prelate with the ceremony of cutting the applicant a little hair.

  










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