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Deanery

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Rural Deanery

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Dean

royal letters-patent. The (English) Ecclesiastical Commissioners Act, 1840 (3 & 4 Vict. c. 113), provides that the old deaneries (except in Wales) shall thenceforth be in the direct patronage of the Sovereign, who may, on the vacancy

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Diocese, or diocess

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

Decanal

Pertaining to a dean or deanery

Capitula ruralia

Capitula ruralia, assemblies or chapters, held by rural deans and parochial clergy, within the precinct of every deanery; which at first were every three weeks, afterwards, once a month, and subsequently once a quarter, Cowel's Law

Decanal

Decanal, pertaining to a deanery

Sine assensu capitali

a bishop, dean, prebendary, or master of a hospital aliened the lands holden in right of his bishopric, deanery, house, etc., without the assent of the chapter or fraternity, in which case his successor should have this

Archdeaconry

The Act 37 & 38 Vict. c. 63 facilitates the re-arrangement of the boundaries of archdeaconries and rural deaneries.

Cathedral preferments

Cathedral preferments, all deaneries, archdeaconries, and canonries, and generally all dignities and officers in any cathedral or collegiate church, below the rank

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