excommunication
Ecclesiastical membership revocation
Excommunication is formal exclusion from a religious community, especially the Catholic Church.
The excommunicated person is cut off from sacraments and fellowship with other believers.
The term extends to any formal expulsion from a group or organization: His excommunication from the party was swift and total.
The verb is excommunicate.
Forced permanent removal
- exileBanishment from homeland
- ostracismBanishment from a group
- shunningDeliberately avoiding someone
- exclusionBeing barred from participation
casting out · ejection · blackballing · rejection · proscription · deportation · outcast · pariah
of the pontiff
- interdictAuthoritative prohibition order
- heresyBelief opposing official doctrine
- schismFormal organizational fracture
- apostasyRenunciation of former beliefs
church · doctrine · canon · pontiff · synod · clergy · sacrament · theology
Formal public accusation
- censureFormal institutional disapproval
- rebukeExpress sharp disapproval
- reprimandFormal expression of disapproval
- repudiationFormal refusal to accept
disapproval · castigation · reproach · judgment · opprobrium · damnation · curse · malediction
expulsion
Forced permanent removal
exclusion · casting out · ejection · blackballing · rejection · proscription · deportation · outcast · pariah · alienation
papal
of the pontiff
- interdictAuthoritative prohibition order
- heresyBelief opposing official doctrine
- schismFormal organizational fracture
apostasy · church · doctrine · canon · pontiff · synod · clergy · sacrament · theology · dogma
denunciation
Formal public accusation
- censureFormal institutional disapproval
- rebukeExpress sharp disapproval
- reprimandFormal expression of disapproval
repudiation · disapproval · castigation · reproach · judgment · opprobrium · damnation · curse · malediction · imprecation
- Church Conflictsschism, Great Schism, church split, Investiture Controversy, Protestant Reformation
- church lawcanon law, church court, papal bull, papal bulls, papal decree
- life changesmarriage, death, divorce, birth, graduation
- heresyheretic, heretical, heretics, apostasy, apostate
- church penaltiesinterdict, suspension, anathema, censure, church discipline
- religious lawreligious law, canon law, sharia, Islamic law, sacred law
excommunicationadmission
Entry or confession
readmission · reinstatement · reconciliation · inclusion · reception
excommunicationbenediction
Formal spoken blessing
blessing · absolution · sanctification · forgiveness · canonization
excommunicationinclusion
Being made part
incorporation · embrace · welcome · integration · acceptance