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Archdeacon [fr. apxwv, chief, and diakovew, Gk., to minister], a substitute for the bishop, having ecclesiastical dignity and jurisdiction over the clergy and laity next after the bishop, either throughout the diocese or in some part of it only. He visits his jurisdiction once every year, and has a Court where he may hear ecclesiastical causes, subject to an appeal to the bishop, by 24 Hen. 8, c. 12, commonly called the Act of Appeals. He examines candidates for holy orders, and inducts clerks upon receipt of the bishop's mandate, Wood's Inst. 30. The Law styles him the bishop's vicar or vicegerent....
Ercedeken
An archdeacon...
Archdeaconry
Archdeaconry, a division of a diocese, and the circuit of an archdeacon's jurisdiction. The Act 37 & 38 Vict. c. 63 facilitates the re-arrangement of the boundaries of archdeaconries and rural deaneries....
Bishop
Bishop [fr. 'plokopoV, Gk. Biscop, Sax.], an overseer or superintendent. The chief of the clergy in his diocese or jurisdiction in England, Wales, or Ireland, and the archbishop's suffragan or assistant. A bishop is elected by the king's cong' d' 'lire, or license to elect the person named by the king, accompanied, by virtue of 25 Hen. 8, c. 20, by a letter-missive, addressed to the dean and chapter; and if they fail to make election in twelve days, the king, by letters-patent, may nominate whom he pleases. A bishop is said to be installed, and there are four things necessary to his complete title: (1) election, which resembles the presentation of a clerk to an ecclesiastical benefice; (2) confirmation, which cannot be opposed on doctrinal grounds: see Reg. v. Archbishop of Canterbury, 1902 KB 503, under title CONFIRMATION OF BISHOPS; (3) consecration, similar to institution; (4) installation, answering to induction. The bishop are the lords spiritual in Parliament: see HOUSE OF LORDS....
Catascopus
Catascopus, an archdeacon, Du. Cange....
Charge
Charge (i) the instructions of a judge to a jury; the judge's summing up of the evidence at a trial by jury; the periodical address of a bishop or archdeacon to his clergy; the taking proceedings against a prisoner; a commission.To lay a duty upon any one, to acquaint any with the nature of their duty. See CHARGE SHEET. The clerk of arraigns gives te prisoner 'in charge' to the jury, by reading an abstract of the indictment, and they are bound to proceed to deliver him until they are discharged. To prefer an accusation against any one.A burden, duty, or trust, when attached to property; see MORTGAGES AND CHARGES, DEBENTURE, LAND CHARGES, ADMINISTRATION, REGISTRATION OF LAND.Includes any head of charge when the charge contains more heads than one. [Code of Criminal Procedure, 1973 (2 of 1974), s. 2 (b)]Means expenditure, H.H. Maharajadhiraja Madhav Rao Jivaji Rao Scindia Bahadur of Gwalior v. Union of India, (1971) 1 SCC 85: AIR 1971 SC 530: (1971) 3 SCR 9.See also K. Muthuswami Gounder...
Circada
Circada, a tribute anciently paid to the bishop or archdeacon for visiting the churches, Du Cange....
Clergy
Clergy [fr. clerge, Fr.; clerus, Lat.], the assembly or body of clerks or ecclesiastics set apart from the rest of the people or laity to superintend the public worship of God and the other ceremonies of religion, and to administer spiritual counsel and instruction.--The clergy were before the Reformation divided into (1) regular, who lived under certain rules, being of some religious order, and were called men of religion, or the religious, such as abbots, priors, monks, etc.; and (2) secular, who did not live under any certain rules of the religious orders, as bishops, deans, parsons, etc. Now the term comprehends all persons in holy orders and in ecclesiastical offices, viz., archbishops, bishops, deans and chapters, archdeacons, rural deans, parsons (either rectors or vicars) and curates, to which may be added parish clerks. The clergy are exempt from serving on juries; restrained from farming more than 80 acres, except with the sanction of the bishop, and cannot carryon any trade....
Convocation
Convocation, an assembly of the clergy protected from molestation by 8 Hen. 6, c. 1. Its purpose is stated to be the enactment of canon law, subject to the license and authority of the sovereign (as required by the Act of Submission [25 Hen. 8, c. 19)], and the examination and censure of all heretical and schismatical books and persons. It is held during the session of parliament, and is convened by the sovereign. There are two convocations, one for the province of Canterbury, the other for that of York. Convocation consists of an upper and a lower house. In the upper sit the bishops and in the lower all the deans, the senior archdeacons, and the proctors of the clergy. A canon made in 1922 provides in detail for the consolidation of the lower houses. Convocation, by express license from the Sovereign, may legislate by making canons, which bind the clergy only. See Steph.Com., book 4, c. vi.; Hook's Church dictionary, tit. 'Convocation'; Reg. v. Archbishop of York, (1888) 20 QBD 740. S...
Court Christian
Court Christian. The ecclesiastical judicature, opposed to the civil court or lay tribunal; and as insecular courts human laws are maintained, so in the Court Christian the laws of Christ should be the rule. And therefore the judges are divines, as archbishops, bishoips, archdeacons, etc., 2 Inst. 488....
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