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Categories: Congregation for the Causes of Saints, Canonization, Tribunals of the Roman Curia, Christian saints, English-language idioms

devil's advocate Fidei Promotor advocatus dei advocatus diaboli Angel's advocate

Someone who takes the worse side just for the sake of argument WordNet 3.0

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Someone who takes the worse side just for the sake of argument WordNet 3.0 & Open English WordNet

The advocatus diaboli is a former official position within the Catholic Church, the Promoter of the Faith: one who "argued against the canonization of a candidate in order to uncover any character flaws or misrepresentation of the evidence favoring canonization". Wikipedia

Former official position within the Catholic Church Wikidata

A person who takes the worse side just for the sake of argument. OmegaWiki

A canon lawyer appointed by the Church to argue against the canonization of the proposed candidate. Wiktionary

Canon lawyer. Wiktionary (translation)

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debater

legal profession

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Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary

Catholic Encyclopedia

Otto's encyclopedia