benefices
Clergy income positions
A benefice is a church position that comes with income, typically land or property revenues granted to a member of the clergy.
The term belongs to ecclesiastical law and church history, referring to the arrangement where a priest or minister receives financial support in exchange for performing religious duties in a parish or diocese.
He was appointed to a benefice in the countryside.
The system of benefices was central to the medieval church's economic structure.
Means of support
- tithesReligious tenth-part contributions
- rectoryClergy dwelling near church
- vicarageClergy residence
- parsonageClergyman's provided dwelling
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livings
Means of support
parsonage · glebe · stipend · parish · diocese · incumbency · clergy · preferment · ordination · vestry
fief
Granted feudal estate
landholding · manor · demesne · fealty · homage · seigneur · liege · granted · hereditary · nobility
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