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 ** ''catechist'' is the teacher of the catechesis
 ** ''catechumen'' is the student
-* '''cathedra / cathedral'''
+* '''cathedral'''
 ** church of a bishop
-** note: cardinals are assigned a church in Rome, but keep their home cathedra
+*** note: cardinals are assigned a church in Rome, but keep their home cathedra
+** from Latin ''cathedra'' for "a teacher's chair"
+*** thus the seat of the Bishop
+** Greek ''kata'' "down" + ''hedra'' "seat, base, chair"
+*** from PIE '''*sed-''' "to sit"
 * '''catholic'''
 ** universal, universally accepted