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

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

The act of becoming vacant, or the state of being vacant; Ð specifically used for the state of a benefice becoming void by the death, deprivation, or resignation of the incumbent.

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

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

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

For the rapacity with which the benefices of the dying were sought and disputed, see ibid.

From A History of The Inquisition of The Middle Ages; volume I by Henry Charles Lea

The cause of this was that Middleton, a beneficed clergyman of the Church of England, and a Cambridge man, differed from other 108Cambridge clergymen on controversial points and church questions.

From The Life of Cicero Volume II. by Anthony Trollope

This Testimonial must be subscribed by three beneficed clergymen.

From The Church Handy Dictionary by Anonymous

The average income of a beneficed clergyman is £300 a year; of a curate, £81. 

From The London Pulpit by J. Ewing (James Ewing) Ritchie

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

Inconvenient as it was, the practice of seeking the assent of local synods to taxation was necessary so long as the whole body of the beneficed clergy was not systematically represented in convocation.

From The English Church in the Middle Ages by William Hunt