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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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