benefice
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The benefice of Middleton was merged with neighbouring Great Henny.
From BBC ● Jul. 16, 2023
The church, she says, is one of 15 in the benefice.
From BBC ● Jul. 16, 2023
That it has taken the House until 1970 to bestow such a benefice on the electorate is a commentary in itself.
From Time Magazine Archive
Besides the sippin' and the stars, Austin happens to have one of the lowest costs of living of any metropolitan area in the nation, a benefice not lost on University of Texas graduates.
From Time Magazine Archive
“By the word ‘beneffcium,’ he says, we understand not a benefice or a fief, but a benefit or a service.
From The Power Of The Popes by Pierre Claude Fran?ois Daunou
Some tycoons have crafted named benefices: the Broad and David Geffen foundations, for example.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 3, 2025
Nearly 2,600 are benefices controlled by Anglican laymen as private patrons.
From Time Magazine Archive
By signing the Act of Separation, 474 clergymen and professors surrendered the benefices they held under the Establishment.
From Time Magazine Archive
Through the appointment of bishops, deans and through the patronage of many benefices, it would be possible for the State to control the Church for its own purposes..
From Time Magazine Archive
But the clergy, from the tenth century, had more than once thought to deprive the patrons of benefices of their privileges, by proceeding without delay to the election and consecration of the prelate.
From The Power Of The Popes by Pierre Claude Fran?ois Daunou
The practice of each diocese in this matter is the law of the convocation, and the practice varies indefinitely as regards the election of proctors to represent the beneficed clergy.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 7, Slice 3 "Convention" to "Copyright" by Various
Clergy, duty of charity to the poor, 2608 a; disposition of superfluous wealth by beneficed clergy, 2609 a.
From Moral Theology A Complete Course Based on St. Thomas Aquinas and the Best Modern Authorities by Charles Jerome Callan
Gower asserts as strongly as Wycliffe that the beneficed clergy escaped from their parishes to the University as to a place of riot and self-indulgence.
From Chaucer and His England by G. G. Coulton
Seven bishops were deprived in 1554, four of them as married, and about a fifth of the beneficed clergy, though some received other benefices after putting away their wives.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 9, Slice 4 "England" to "English Finance" by Various
Thirteen of the beneficed clergy were altogether bookless, though several of them possessed the baselard or dagger which church councils had forbidden in vain for centuries past; four more had only their Breviary.
From Chaucer and His England by G. G. Coulton
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