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Ecclesiastical Corporations. Corporations created for the furtherance of religion, and for the perpetuation of the rights of the church, the members of which are exclusively spiritual persons. They are of two kinds: corporations sole-viz., bishops, certain deans, parsons, and vicars; and corporations aggregate-viz., deans and chapters, and formerly prior and convent, abbot and monks, and the like. For a statutory definition see (English) 14 & 15 Vict. c. 104, s. 11.