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Archdeaconry
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Dean
orders, and that the dean shall reside for at least eight months in the year. By the (English) Archdeaconries and Rural Deaneries Act, 1874 (37 & 38 Vict. c. 63), provision is made for the re-arrangement of
Diocese, or diocess
dioikew to govern, Gk.; di'cesis, Lat.], the circuit of every bishop's jurisdiction; it is divided into archdeaconries, each archdeaconry into rural deaneries, and rural deaneries into parishes, Co. Litt. 94
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Rural Deans
of the last century, they were generally revived), whose deaneries are an ecclesiastical division of the diocese or archdeaconry. They are deputies of the bishop, planted all round his diocese, to inspect the conduct of the parochial
Visitation
periodical visit of a bishop or archdeacon to his clergy at the principal church of the diocese or archdeaconry, when he delivers a hortatory address called a 'charge.'
Cathedral preferments
Cathedral preferments, all deaneries, archdeaconries, and canonries, and generally all dignities and officers in any cathedral or collegiate church, below the rank of
Ecclesiastical division of England
Ecclesiastical division of England, is into provinces, dioceses, archdeaconries, rural deaneries, and parishes.
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