| 单词 | church commissioner |
| 释义 | > as lemmasChurch Commissioner Church Commissioner n. a member of any of various boards or commissions created to manage church matters; (now) spec. a member of the Church Commission, created in 1948 to manage the assets of the Church of England.The Church Commission was formed from a merger of the Ecclesiastical Commission and the administrators of Queen Anne's Bounty (see those entries). ΘΚΠ society > faith > church government > laity > lay functionaries > commissioner > [noun] Church Commissioner1644 1644 S. Rutherford Due Right of Presbyteries sig. Yy2 They made a Church-ordinance to send Paul and Barnabas as Church-messengers, or Church-Commissioners to the Synod. 1736 N. Trott Laws Province S.-Carolina I. 388 The Church-Wardens..shall render an Account of the said Money how laid out, to the Church Commissioners at their next Meeting. 1842 Ld. Tennyson Epic in Poems (new ed.) II. 2 I heard The parson..Now harping on the church-commissioners, Now hawking at Geology and schism. 1948 Times 28 Feb. 6/4 The Archbishop of Canterbury has nominated the following as Church Commissioners:—The Bishop Suffragan of Kensington, [etc.]. 2001 Daily Tel. 4 July 28/7 The stake, worth around £6m, had been held by the Church Commissioners on behalf of the CoE. < as lemmas |
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