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- Church of England 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).
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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
A benefice in this context means “the office of rector or vicar of a parish or parishes, with cure of souls”.1 A benefice may comprise just one parish, or more than one parish (a ‘multi-parish benefice’). 7. The right of patronage in respect of about 50% of the benefices in the Church of England belongs to the bishop of the diocese.
In English ecclesiastical law, the term incumbent refers to the holder of a Church of England parochial charge or benefice. The term "benefice" originally denoted a grant of land for life in return for services.
a permanent job as a leader in the Catholic Church or Church of England, for example as a priest, which provides someone with property and an income, or the land that forms this property: In Henry VIII's reign, the great Dutch scholar Erasmus was given the benefice of Aldington in Kent.
What is a benefice? The individual unit of the Church of England is the parish. With declining numbers of priests it is not possible to have one priest to each parish. Parishes are sometimes joined together in benefices, sharing a priest between them. The degree to which they join can vary. Sometimes they become completely united in every respect.
In centuries past, each parish in England would have had its own incumbent (the vicar or rector in charge of the parish), but more recently reductions in church attendance and income have forced many parishes to work together under a single incumbent as a multi-parish benefice.
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What is a United Benefice? The Church of England works through the parish system: a geographical division of our country into small units, each containing one or more parish churches. In times gone by every parish would have its own Vicar, or Rector, but as rural populations shifted to the cities, parishes began to join together in order to ...
