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  1. Before the Council of Trent a simple benefice could lawfully be conferred on a cleric as early as his seventh year, but since that council the recipient of a simple benefice must be in his fourteenth year, and for double benefices the age of twenty-four years completed is always required. A greater maturity is demanded for certain offices, e.g. thirty years completed for the episcopate, and ...

  2. Presentation therefore means the naming to the ecclesiastical authorities of a suitable cleric, thereby conferring on the latter the right to have the vacant benefice. Like election and nomination presentation confers on the cleric presented a real right (jus ad rem), so that the ecclesiastical superior entrusted with the institution may not give the benefice to another.

  3. Presentation therefore means the naming to the ecclesiastical authorities of a suitable cleric, thereby conferring on the latter the right to have the vacant benefice. Like election and nomination presentation confers on the cleric presented a real right ( jus ad rem ), so that the ecclesiastical superior entrusted with the institution may not give the benefice to another.

  4. Click to enlarge. Pension, ECCLESIASTICAL, the right to a certain sum of money to be paid yearly out of the revenues of a church or benefice to a cleric, on account of just reasons approved by an ecclesiastical superior. The term is derived, according to some, from the Latin word pendeo, “to depend”; according to others, from the word pendo ...

  5. Oct 20, 2022 · 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 performance of some spiritual service.

  6. Jun 11, 2015 · Thank you very much for the reply. I’m a very slow but avid language learner. I just about keep my head above water with the Polish. The phrase was ‘uzyskać prezenty na probostwo’ (literally: receive the gifts of a parish), which I translated using the word ‘collation’ (which Collins gives as ‘appoint an incumbent to a benefice’).

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  8. the right given permanently by the Church to a cleric to receive ecclesiastical revenues on account of the performance of some spiritual service. Four characteristics are essential to every benefice: the right to revenue from church property, the beneficed cleric being the usufructuary and not the proprietor of the source of his support;

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