Celebrant
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Celebrant may refer to:
Celebrant may also refer to:
- Celebrant or OfficiantOfficiantAn officiant is someone who officiates at a service or ceremony, such as marriage, burial, or namegiving/baptism. Officiants may be ordained by any denomination as members of their clergy, or by secular/Humanist or interfaith/interspiritual religious bodies...
, the leader of a liturgyLiturgyLiturgy is either the customary public worship done by a specific religious group, according to its particular traditions or a more precise term that distinguishes between those religious groups who believe their ritual requires the "people" to do the "work" of responding to the priest, and those...
or ceremony who is empowered to perform it- In the Catholic and AnglicanAnglicanismAnglicanism is a tradition within Christianity comprising churches with historical connections to the Church of England or similar beliefs, worship and church structures. The word Anglican originates in ecclesia anglicana, a medieval Latin phrase dating to at least 1246 that means the English...
churches, the celebrant is the person who celebrates a sacrament, e.g., the priestPriestA priest is a person authorized to perform the sacred rites of a religion, especially as a mediatory agent between humans and deities. They also have the authority or power to administer religious rites; in particular, rites of sacrifice to, and propitiation of, a deity or deities...
who celebrates the EucharistEucharistThe Eucharist , also called Holy Communion, the Sacrament of the Altar, the Blessed Sacrament, the Lord's Supper, and other names, is a Christian sacrament or ordinance...
or the bishopBishopA bishop is an ordained or consecrated member of the Christian clergy who is generally entrusted with a position of authority and oversight. Within the Catholic Church, Eastern Orthodox, Oriental Orthodox Churches, in the Assyrian Church of the East, in the Independent Catholic Churches, and in the...
who ordains a priest
- In the Catholic and Anglican
- Celebrant (Australia)Celebrant (Australia)In Australia, celebrants are people who conduct formal ceremonies in the community, particularly weddings, which are the main ceremony of legal import conducted by celebrants. They may also conduct extra-legal ceremonies such as naming of babies, renewal of wedding vows and funerals...
, a legally authorised conductor of weddings
Celebrant may also refer to:
- The Celebrant or Silverlode, a river in J. R. R. Tolkien's Middle-earth writings
- a member of Celebrant USA Foundation and InstituteCelebrant USA Foundation and InstituteThe Celebrant Foundation & Institute is a 501 non-profit educational organization dedicated to the education, training and certification of professional secular officiants known as Life-Cycle Celebrants...
, an organization providing non-religious ceremonial practitioners