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Titles (Ecclesiastical)
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Bishop
he pleases. A bishop is said to be installed, and there are four things necessary to his complete title: (1) election, which resembles the presentation of a clerk to an ecclesiastical benefice; (2) confirmation, which cannot be
Papist
maintain the supreme ecclesiastical power of the sovereign. From the date of the Reformation Papists, either under that title or under the title of persons professing the Popish religion, or of Popish recusants convict, were subjected, by
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Advocate
members of a college situate at Doctor's Commons, incorporated by charter, June 22, 8 Geo. 3, under the title of 'The College of Doctors of Law exercent in the Ecclesiastical and Admiralty Courts,' and had, previously to
Doctors' Commons
by virtue of which the members of the society and their successors were incorporated under the name and title of 'The College of Doctors of Laws exercent in the Ecclesiastical and Admiralty Courts.' The college consisted of
Prebend
an ecclesiastic in consideration of his officiating and serving in the church; whereas the canonicate is a mere title or spiritual quality which may exist independently of any stipend, 2 Steph. Com. … confounded with canonicate; but there is a difference between them. The former is the stipend granted to an ecclesiastic in consideration of his officiating and serving in the church; whereas the canonicate is a mere title or
Primate
Primate, a chief ecclesiastic; part of the style and title of an archbishop; thus the Archbishop of Canter-bury is styled Primate of All England; the Archbishop of York … Primate, a chief ecclesiastic; part of the style and title of an archbishop; thus the Archbishop of Canter-bury is styled Primate of
Scyre-gemot, or Sciremot
to the sheriff, etc., wherein both the ecclesiastical and temporal laws were given incharge to the county, Seld. Titles of Hon.
Proctor
to those of solicitors and attorneys in other courts, as and being a separate body of practitioners. The title still survives, but the separation no longer exists. Owing to the abolition of the jurisdiction of the Ecclesiastical
Exarch
over several monasteries in the modern Greek Church a deputy of the patriarch who visits the clergy investigates ecclesiastical cases etc … A viceroy in Ravenna the title of the viceroys of the Byzantine emperors in the Eastern Church the superior over several monasteries in the
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