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Every parish priest ought to have a fixed beneficial revenue, his congrua, the minimum of which is fixed by the Council of Trent (Sess. XXIV, c. xiii, de ref.), at one hundred ducats (about one hundred and forty-two dollars), a sum insufficient today; the congrua may be replaced by contributions from the public treasury, in certain countries, paid in return for former ecclesiastical property ...
In many countries parishes are regarded as benefices according to ecclesiastical law. BENEFICE A juridical entity erected in perpetuity by competent ecclesiastical authority. It consists of a ...
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The need which benefices are intended to meet was in the earlier centuries of the life of the Church satisfied in other ways. From the beginning, the clergy was supported by the liberality of the faithful, but originally all offerings were transmitted to the bishop, who took charge of their administration and distribution. Usually the mass of donat...
Benefices are divided into simple and double; major and minor ; elective, presentative, and collative; residential and non-residential; perpetual and manual; secular and regular. Simple benefices are those which involve only the duty of reciting the Divine Office or of celebrating Mass. Double benefices imply the care of souls or jurisdiction in th...
Benefices can be created only by ecclesiastical authority, since the right to revenue which they suppose is always necessarily connected with some spiritual function, and is therefore reckoned among the jura spiritualia controlled by the Church. The competent authority may be the pope or a bishop or one possessing quasi-episcopal authority, it bein...
A benefice once erected is understood to be perpetual, but the law must and does provide for circumstances which may require an alteration of the status of a benefice by union or division, or even its entire suppression or extinction. Sometimes, owing to changed conditions, especially to a diminution of revenue, it becomes necessary to unite two or...
The collation or granting of benefices may be ordinary or extraordinary, free or necessary. The distinction between ordinary and extraordinary collation is based upon the fact that while, ordinarily major benefices are disposed of by the pope and minor benefices by bishops, it may occasionally happen that this rule suffers an exception in so far as...
In order that benefices may the more effectually fulfill the purposes for which they were instituted, various laws have been enacted governing the act of collation. Whether the collation be free or necessary it must always be gratuitous, to avoid simony ; free, that is without coaction; unconditional; public, so that it may be readily proved ; and ...
All beneficed clerics are bound to make a profession of faith within two months from the date of taking possession, to perform faithfully the duties pertaining to their charge, to recite the canonical hours , and if the benefice held be double, to reside in the place in which their benefice is located. Violation of the law of residence is punished ...
The tenure of the incumbent of a benefice is perpetual, in the sense that it can be terminated only by death or for causes specified in the law. It is provided in the law that in the event of certain acts vacancy shall occur ipso facto; as when the incumbent marries or attempts marriage, when he takes solemn vows in a religious order, when he viola...
The holder of a benefice is not the owner of the foundation from which he derives his support; he occupies in reference to it the position of a tutor or guardian who must defend its interests. His chief duty is to maintain it as a perpetual means of support for ministers of religion. Its fruits or revenues, however, belong to him, but with the obli...
A detailed explanation of the Parish Share allocation method adopted in 2014 can be found in the following booklet: Parish Share Review Booklet; From 2014, the Share was no longer allocated to individual parishes but to benefices, which is where the costs lie. There are two elements; the first relates to the actual cost of ministry within the ...
May 26, 2021 · Parish Share Scheme. The other important elements to note are: • Two-step allocation from Diocese to deaneries, then from deaneries to parishes/benefices. This allows for decisions to be made and owned at a local level, in the light of knowledge of local circumstances. • Changes in allocated Share to deaneries from year
Aug 2, 2019 · There are over 300 parishes in the Diocese of Ely. A parish will have its own church building or buildings and is under the authority of a Rector, Vicar or Priest-in-Charge. Such clergy people are responsible for anyone who lives within the parish. More details about individual parishes is available on their own parish websites.
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By the Pluralities Act 1850 (13 & 14 Vict. c. 98) restrictions were further narrowed so that no spiritual person could hold two benefices except the churches of such benefices within 3 miles (4.8 km) of each other by the nearest road, and the annual value of one of such benefices did not exceed £100. By this statute the term "benefice" is defined to mean "benefice with cure of souls" and no ...
