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The ''Pontificale Romano-Germanicum'' ("Roman-Germanic pontifical"), also known as the ''PRG'', is a set_of_Latin_documents_of_Catholic_Church.html"__"title="Latin.html"_;"title="set_of_Latin">set_of_Latin_documents_of_Catholic_Church">Catholic_ The_Catholic_Church,_also_known_as_the_Roman_Catholic_Church,_is_the__largest_Christian_church,_with_1.3 billion__baptized_Catholics_worldwide_._It_is_among_the_world's_oldest_and_largest_international_institutions,_and_has_played_a__...
_liturgy.html" "title="Latin">set_of_Latin_documents_of_Catholic_Church.html" "title="Latin.html" ;"title="set of Latin">set of Latin documents of Catholic Church">Catholic The Catholic Church, also known as the Roman Catholic Church, is the largest Christian church, with 1.3 billion baptized Catholics worldwide . It is among the world's oldest and largest international institutions, and has played a ...
liturgy">liturgical Liturgy is the customary public ritual of worship performed by a religious group. ''Liturgy'' can also be used to refer specifically to public worship by Christians. As a religious phenomenon, liturgy represents a communal response to and partic ...
practice compiled in St. Alban's Abbey, Mainz, under the reign of William (archbishop of Mainz), in the mid-10th century, and an influential work in the establishment of the Catholic Church in Europe. It was in wide circulation during the Middle Ages and was used as the basis for the modern
Roman Pontifical The ''Roman Pontifical'', in Latin ''Pontificale Romanum'', is the pontifical as used by the Roman Rite of the Catholic Church. It is the liturgical book that contains the rites and ceremonies usually performed by bishops of the Roman Rite. T ...
. It contains 258 ''Ordines'' describing
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