canonry

After offering some Soviet advance brass a dinner at his canonry, complete with vintage port, he benumbs them with a conducted tour of his cathedral.

From Time Magazine Archive

It is a Trollopian situation, as scientific panjandrums play politics with the skill and gusto of the Barchester Cathedral chapter contending over a vacant canonry.

From Time Magazine Archive

On 14 May 1568, Tycho received a formal promise from the King, still Frederick II, that he could have the next canonry to become vacant at the Cathedral of Roskilde, in Seeland.

From "The Scientists" by John Gribbin

Having completed his studies in Rostock, and with his future secured by the promise of a canonry, in the middle of 1568 Tycho set off on his travels again.

From "The Scientists" by John Gribbin

Even the long-promised canonry finally fell into his lap in 1579.

From "The Scientists" by John Gribbin

The said four canonries shall be of the number of those of the erection of the Church.

From The Philippine Islands, 1493-1898 — Volume 21 of 55 1624 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 James Alexander Robertson

Frequently men living in England were appointed to parishes or canonries within the Pale, and, as they could not take personal charge themselves, they secured the services of a substitute.

From History of the Catholic Church from the Renaissance to the French Revolution — Volume 2 by James MacCaffrey

But he never took orders, the clerical tonsure being a sufficient qualification for holding canonries.

From View of the State of Europe during the Middle Ages, Vol. 3 by Henry Hallam

My intention is that you do not, for these dioceses, propose to me any exemption of service for conscripts, no nominations for scholarships, for curacies, or for canonries.

From The Modern Regime, Volume 2 by John Durand

Besides direct taxation, wealth raised from the appropriation of rich canonries was drained away from church and state into the Papal treasury.

From Old St. Paul's Cathedral by William Benham