holy office in English

noun
1
the ecclesiastical court of the Roman Catholic Church established as the final court of appeal in trials of heresy. Formed in 1542 as part of the Inquisition, it was renamed the Sacred Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith in 1965.

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1. A letter was sent to the Holy Office calling for an investigation of Galileo.

2. The last paragraph contains an anachronism. The Holy Office no longer existed at that time.

3. It freed scholars to pursue their researches without having to look over their shoulders at the Holy Office.

4. Filaret owed his eminence less to his holy office than to his son's willingness to treat him as a co-ruler.

5. This Antiphonary (a book containing the choral parts of the Holy Office) was transferred to the Biblioteca comunale degli Intronati di Siena in 1811 from its place of origin, the Augustinian monastery of San Salvatore in Lecceto near Siena