Chapter (religion)

A chapter (Latin: capitulum^[1] or capitellum)^[2] is one of several bodies of clergy in Roman Catholic, Old Catholic, Anglican, and Nordic Lutheran churches or their gatherings.

For textual divisions of the Jewish and Christian Bible, see Chapters and verses of the Bible; of the Koran, see Surah; of the Rig Veda, see Sukta.

Chapter of faults[edit]

A chapter of faults is a gathering for public correction of infractions against community rules and for self-criticism separate from standard confession.^[9]^[10]

Orders of knighthood[edit]

The assembled body of knights of a military or knightly order was also referred as a "chapter”.

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Chisholm, Hugh

Fanning, William (1908). . In Herbermann, Charles (ed.). Catholic Encyclopedia. Vol. 3. New York: Robert Appleton Company.

"Chapter"

Baynes, T. S., ed. (1878). . Encyclopædia Britannica. Vol. 5 (9th ed.). New York: Charles Scribner's Sons. p. 398.

"Chapter"

Cripps, H. W. (1937). A Practical Treatise on the Law Relating to the Church and Clergy (8th ed.). K. M. Macmorran. pp. 127–146.