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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).
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.
A benefice is elective when the appointing authority may collate only after some electoral body has named the future incumbent; presentative when such nomination belongs to a patron; collative when the bishop or other superior appoints independently of any election or presentation.
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.
A juridical entity erected in perpetuity by competent ecclesiastical authority. It consists of a sacred office and the right to receive the corresponding revenues.
Given its nature, a benefice is instituted by the competent ecclesiastical authority, which brings together permanently a spiritual element and a temporal element, putting the latter at the service of the former. During the Middle Ages, the laity did not hesitate to usurp the right to confer ecclesiastical goods on members of the clergy.
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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).
