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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.
They are ecclesiastical if the property donated by a founder has been formally erected into a benefice by the proper spiritual authority. If, however, the property designed for the purpose of procuring certain acts of Divine service has not received ecclesiastical erection it is called a lay chaplaincy.
Oct 20, 2022 · Let’s take a look at the full, precise definition of a benefice, and at how it developed into a method for too many dishonest clerics to bleed church institutions (and the faithful!) dry. Then we’ll see what the Church did to reform the abuse—and how, in the process, it developed a very different method of providing priests and bishops ...
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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...
Benefice. a) The position held by an incumbent entitling him/her to a stipend and a parsonage house in return for carrying out spiritual duties. b) The parish or group of parishes served by one incumbent.
A juridical entity erected in perpetuity by competent ecclesiastical authority. It consists of a sacred office and the right to receive the corresponding revenues.
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Institution, CANONICAL (Lat. institutio, from instituere, to establish), in its widest signification denotes any manner, in accordance with canon law, of acquiring an ecclesiastical benefice (Regula prima juris, in VI t0).
