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Parsonage
borrowing money for building, rebuilding, or repairing a parsonage, see 'Gilbert Act' (16 Geo. 3, c. 53), the Clergy Residences Repair Act, 1776, the Parsonages Act, 1865, and the Parsonages Measure, 1930; and as to dilapidations, see
Easter offerings, or Easter dues
Easter offerings, or Easter dues, small sums of money paid to the parochial clergy by the parishio-ners of Easter as a compensation for personal tithes, or the tithe for personal labour; recoverable
Deacon
a priest may, except only pronouncing the absolution and consecrating the Sacrament of the Lord's Supper. By the Clergy Ordination Act, 1804 (44 Geo. 3, c. 43), it is provided (conformably to Canon 34 of the Canons
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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
Clerical
Of or pertaining to the clergy suitable for the clergy
Pseudo
A combining form or prefix signifying false counterfeit pretended spurious as pseudo apostle a false apostle pseudo clergy false or spurious clergy pseudo episcopacy pseudo form pseudo martyr pseudo philosopher Also used adjectively
Protopope
One of the clergy of first rank in the lower order of secular clergy an archpriest called also protopapas
Eastern Church
the Communion in both kinds using leavened bread and to infants as well as adults permits its secular clergy to marry before ordination and to keep their wives afterward but not to marry a second time selects
Deprivation
Deprivation, taking away from a clergy-man his patronage, vicarage, or other spiritual promotion or dignity, either, first, by sentence declaratory in the proper Court
Lay
Lay [fr. Gk.], not clerical or not professional; regarding or belonging to the people, as distinct from the clergy or a particular profession.
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