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

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

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

It should constantly be borne in mind that no one of these things—whether vassalage, the benefice, or the immunity—was in itself feudalism.

From A Source Book of Medi?val History Documents Illustrative of European Life and Institutions from the German Invasions to the Renaissance by Frederic Austin Ogg

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

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

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

From Time Magazine Archive

The bag or wallet of the apostles has been converted into treasures, benefices, principalities and revenues.

From Ecce Homo! A Critical Inquiry into the History of Jesus of Nazareth: Being a Rational Analysis of the Gospels by Paul Henry Thiry Baron d' Holbach

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

In that year, to judge by the Diocesan records, no less than eighty-five per cent. of the beneficed clergy were swept away, which implies a corresponding mortality amongst other classes.

From Highways and Byways in Cambridge and Ely by Edward Conybeare

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

From The New Rector by Stanley John Weyman

The village of Quiapo, which lies on the other side of the river, is administered by the said beneficed secular.

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

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