Deanery - Law Dictionary Search Results
Commendam
of a clerk until it may be conveniently supplied with a pastor. Not only dignitaries and benefices, but deaneries, prebends, headships of colleges and hospitals, have been granted in commendam. The acceptance by a beneficed clerk of
Ecclesiastical division of England
Ecclesiastical division of England, is into provinces, dioceses, archdeaconries, rural deaneries, and parishes.
Rural Deans
(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
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