Examples of 'benefices' in a sentence

Meaning of "benefices"

benefice (noun): An ecclesiastical office or position that has attached to it a source of income, such as a stipend or a living. Benefices are often granted by a religious institution to clergy members
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From the benefices of my sees and abbeys.
Neither may they confer parochial benefices.
It applies to benefices granted by a pope to needy clerics.
This was done in part to end the inheritance of benefices.
Some remembrances benefices and prayers.
With funds stolen from their benefices.
He accumulated fifty five benefices during this pontificate.
Acquisitive prelates occasionally held multiple major benefices.
He held numerous other benefices and became very wealthy.
Edington also held ecclesiastical benefices.
The plurality of benefices is forbidden.
These were transformed into ecclesiastical benefices.
Plurality of benefices also is forbidden.
There had perhaps been an exchange of benefices.
The great benefices and other ecclesiastical dignities support the.

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This is one of the earliest examples of corrupt plurality of benefices.
The ecclesiastical benefices were now.
He left a silver chalice and a gilded paten to each of his benefices.
A pouillé is an enumeration of all ecclesiastical benefices located in a given geographical area.
Valens said that the malefics are more powerful than the benefices.
From their benefices.
These benefices provided an income without the obligation to perform any pastoral services.
They were patronised by the emperors and were enfeoffed with benefices on imperial estates.
The extensive reservation of ecclesiastical benefices was destined to exercise a prejudicial influence on ecclesiastical life.
Those who attempt to make such persons canons are to be suspended from their benefices.
Provisors of benefices c.
The benefices thus made vacant may be freely sought from the apostolic see.
The bishop may also nominate to the benefices and ecclesiastical functions of his own diocese.
He is patron of eleven Anglican benefices.
In both benefices he was succeeded by his son Samuel.
Reserve official positions and church benefices for Castilians.
Benefices are almost unknown in the US.
The revolution deprived him of all his benefices in France.
The establishment of ecclesiastical benefices was a way of guaranteeing the financial stability of the Church.
A diocese is divided into parishes in the Church of England into benefices and parishes.
He also held sinecure benefices yielding revenues in Spanish America.
Statute of Provisions forbids the Pope from appointing clergy to English benefices.
The possession of such a number of English benefices should cause no surprise.
To appoint bishops, and to dispose of the ecclesiastical benefices.
List of benefices by Area.
The illegitimate Sons of Clerics are excluded from certain Benefices and Pensions.
Plus VI bestowed various benefices on him and made him titular Bishop of Cyrene.
Accordingly, he would confer cathedral dignities and benefices.
He held several benefices in England and France.
As a result, he was given several benefices.
In the United States benefices are almost unknown.
Canons xxiii-xxx regulate ecclesiastical elections and the collation of benefices.
Warbstow was then a chapelry to Treneglos and the two benefices were later united as a vicarage.
Infamy involves irregularity, and is an offense punishable by the loss of ecclesiastical benefices.
An Act that none shall purchase Benefices from Rome c.

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