Oratory is a type of public speaking.

Oratory may also refer to:

  • Eloquence, fluent, forcible, elegant, or persuasive speaking
  • Rhetoric, the art of discourse

Places

  • Oratory (worship), a public or private place of divine worship, akin to a chapel
  • The Oratory, Liverpool, a former mortuary chapel in Liverpool, England
  • Birmingham Oratory
  • London Oratory
  • Oxford Oratory
  • York Oratory
  • Petergate House
  • More House
  • Saint Joseph's Oratory, Montreal, Canada

Religious orders

  • Oratory of the Good Shepherd (Anglican)
  • Oratory of Jesus, or "French Oratory" (Roman Catholic)
  • Oratory of Saint Philip Neri (Roman Catholic)
  • Teologisk Oratorium (Lutheran)

See also

  • Orator (disambiguation)
  • Oratorian (disambiguation)
  • Oratorio, a type of musical composition
  • Oratory School (disambiguation)