CONGREGATION

(Lat. congrego. from con, together, and grex, a flock.) At Oxford and Cambridge the a embly of masters and doctors is so called, in which the ordinary busine of giving degrees, . is transacted. Congregation. In Ecclesiastical language, properly an a embly of the people for the purpose of divine worship. Companies of religious persons, forming sub-divisions of monastic orders, are styled in the church of Rome congregations.Foran account of the congregations of cardinals at Rome, a species of committees for the transaction of busine of the see of Rome, one Enc. Metropol., art. " Congresation." The " Congregation of the Lord" was an appellation a umed by the hist Scotch Presbyterian Di enters, in contradistinction to the Church of England, which they styled the " Congregation of Satan." They first came into notice in 1557, under the Duke of Argyle, and were at a later period led by John Knox. [s. 287]