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The term benefice, according to the canon law, denotes an ecclesiastical office (but not always a cure of souls) in which the incumbent is required to perform certain duties or conditions of a spiritual kind (spiritualities) while being supported by the revenues attached to the office (temporalities). [7]
BENEFICE. A juridical entity erected in perpetuity by competent ecclesiastical authority. It consists of a sacred office and the right to receive the corresponding revenues. The revenues may arise ...
Benefice (Lat. Beneficium, a benefit).—Popularly the term benefice is often understood to denote either certain property destined for the support of ministers of religion, or a spiritual office or function, such as the care of souls, but in the strict sense it signifies a right, i.e. the right given permanently by the Church to a cleric to receive ecclesiastical revenues on account of the ...
Benefice An ecclesiastical office carrying certain duties. An incumbent's benefice is therefore not a geographical area (see parish) but the office to which (s)he is appointed and may comprise one or more parishes. A benefice may be a rectory or vicarage from which the incumbent is called rector or vicar. Bishop
An ecclesiastical office is lost by the lapse of a predetermined time, by reaching the age determined by law, by resignation, by transfer, by removal, and by privation. §2. An ecclesiastical office is not lost by the expiration in any way of the authority of the one who conferred it unless the law provides otherwise. §3.
Aug 2, 2019 · What is a Benefice? Historically this is the living itself - an ecclesiastical office held by a priest (the incumbent) for which a stipend (salary of sorts) is paid. Today, a benefice will comprise one or more parishes that are served by a priest.
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goods. In the strict sense, then, a ‘benefice’ is defined as the income of certain goods of the Church assigned to a given office. In the broader sense of the word, a ‘benefice’ includes both an ecclesiastical office and the right to receive the revenues that go with it, which correspond to the duties and rights of the benefice holder.
