benefice
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The church, she says, is one of 15 in the benefice.
From BBC ● Jul. 16, 2023
The benefice of Middleton was merged with neighbouring Great Henny.
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
This benefice he supplied, when the colony was at last established in 1607, by a curate, one Robert Hunt.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 12, Slice 7 "Gyantse" to "Hallel" by Various
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
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
To those of the expelled who were priests, the hope was held out to them, in case of “free surrender,” that they should be promoted to the first vacant benefices.
From Mellifont Abbey, Co. Louth Its Ruins and Associations, a Guide and Popular History by Anonymous
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
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
The Assembly not only adopted this constitution but decreed that all beneficed ecclesiastics should swear to its observance.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 11, Slice 2 "French Literature" to "Frost, William" by Various
At the opening of this age, the beneficed clergy were often unfit for their posts; they were very largely indifferent to their duties.
From Social Transformations of the Victorian Age A Survey of Court and Country by T. H. S. (Thomas Hay Sweet) Escott
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
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