benefice

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

Swift was lucky to be left with a dreary benefice in Dublin, the deanship of St. Patrick's Cathedral.

From Time Magazine Archive

Its marble lions gaze out with dignity over trash and traffic alike, and the lofty portico proclaims the institution's origins in the heady days of 19th century hope and public benefice.

From Time Magazine Archive

But, ordinarily, the term dignity is applied to bishoprics, deaneries, archdeaconries, and prebendaryships; benefice to parsonages, vicarages, and donatives.

From Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (2nd 100 Pages) by Noah Webster

Some tycoons have crafted named benefices: the Broad and David Geffen foundations, for example.

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 3, 2025

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

By signing the Act of Separation, 474 clergymen and professors surrendered the benefices they held under the Establishment.

From Time Magazine Archive

Nearly 2,600 are benefices controlled by Anglican laymen as private patrons.

From Time Magazine Archive

The kings gave their leading chiefs portions of conquered land or of the royal domains, under the name of benefices.

From History of European Morals From Augustus to Charlemagne (Vol. 2 of 2) by William Edward Hartpole Lecky

It was pleasant to be in Oxford again, a beneficed clergyman.

From The New Rector by Stanley John Weyman

This Testimonial must be subscribed by three beneficed clergymen.

From The Church Handy Dictionary by Anonymous

What was a beneficed clergyman, whose dignity was young and tender, to do, subjected to the criticism of unknown dogs?

From The New Rector by Stanley John Weyman

Inclosures, hedges, ditches and the like are included in things “of which the beneficed person hath the burden and charge of reparation.”

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 8, Slice 4 "Diameter" to "Dinarchus" by Various

Outside and near the walls of the city lies the parish of Santiago where one beneficed secular has charge of all the Spaniards who live outside the said walls.

From The Philippine Islands, 1493-1898, Volume 36, 1649-1666 Explorations by early navigators, descriptions of the islands and their peoples, their history and records of the catholic missions, as related in contemporaneous books and manuscripts, showing the political, economic, commercial and religious conditions of those islands from their earliest relations with European nations to the close of the nineteenth century. by Edward Gaylord Bourne