Archdeaconry - Law Dictionary Search Results
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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....
Dean
Dean [fr. decanus, Lat.; deka, Gk., ten], an ecclesiastical governor or dignitary, so called as he is supposed to have originally presided over ten canons or prebendaries at the least. In cathedrals of the old foundation in England, the dean is the principal of the four chief dignitaries, exercising a general supervision over the other members of the capitular body, with special reference to the cure of souls. In cathedrals of the new foundation, the duties of the deans are defined by the statutes of each chapter.Considered in respect of the differences of office, deans are of six kinds:--(1) Deans of Chapters, who are either of cathedral or collegiate churches. (2) Deans of Peculiars, who have sometimes both jurisdiction and cure of souls, and sometimes jurisdiction only. (3) Rural Deans, deputies of the bishop, planted all round his diocese, the better to inspect the conduct of the parochial clergy, to inquire into and report dilapidations, and to examine the candidates for confirmat...
Diocese, or diocess
Diocese, or diocess [fr. diocese, Fr.; diocesi, Ital. And Span.; dioikhoiV fr. 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...
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 a bishop. Consult Stephens on the clergy....
Ecclesiastical division of England
Ecclesiastical division of England, is into provinces, dioceses, archdeaconries, rural deaneries, and parishes....
Rural Deans
Rural Deans, very ancient officers of the Church (almost grown out of use, until, about the middle 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 clergy, to inquire into and report dilapidations, and to examine candidates for confirmation, armed in minuter matters with an inferior degree of judicial and coercive authority...
Visitation
Visitation, judicial visit or perambulation; the 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.'...
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