{"id":12823,"count":1,"description":"In those hierarchically organised churches of Western Christianity which have an ecclesiastical law system, an ordinary is an officer of the church who by reason of office has ordinary power to execute the church's laws. The term comes from the Latin word ordinarius.\nIn Eastern Christianity, a corresponding officer is called a hierarch, which comes from the Greek word \u1f31\u03b5\u03c1\u03ac\u03c1\u03c7\u03b7\u03c2 (hierarch\u0113s) meaning \" president of sacred rites, high-priest\" and that from \"\u1f31\u03b5\u03c1\u03b5\u03cd\u03c2\" (hiereus), \"priest\" + \"\u1f00\u03c1\u03c7\u03ae\" (arch\u0113), amongst others \"first place or power, rule\". In common usage in the Episcopal Church, an ordinary is a diocesan bishop.\nThe term is also employed within civic governance, notably in the US; the Ordinary role involves the discharge of certain, often legal or legally related, tasks falling to city or county authorities, such as licensing marriages and adjudicating claims against an authority.\nIn canon law, the power to govern the church is divided into the power to make laws (legislative),...","link":"https:\/\/www.skateboarding-lessons.com\/go\/tag\/ordinary\/","name":"Ordinary","slug":"ordinary","taxonomy":"post_tag","meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.skateboarding-lessons.com\/go\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags\/12823","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.skateboarding-lessons.com\/go\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.skateboarding-lessons.com\/go\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/taxonomies\/post_tag"}],"wp:post_type":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.skateboarding-lessons.com\/go\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts?tags=12823"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}