| 单词 | church estates commissioner |
| 释义 | > as lemmasChurch Estates Commissioner Church Estates Commissioner n. a lay official appointed to oversee the management of the property of the Church of England.There are currently three Church Estates Commissioners, known as First, Second, and Third respectively. They are members of the Assets Committee of the Church Commission (cf. Church Commissioner n.); formerly they were members of the Ecclesiastical Commission. Two are appointed by the Crown, and one by the Archbishop of Canterbury. ΚΠ 1849 Daily News 20 Feb. 4/5 The measure will..provide for the appointment of three lay and paid commissioners,..to be called Church Estates Commissioners. 1871 J. Mowbray Let. Sept. in Seventy Years at Westm. (1900) 256 The Church Estates Commissioner visiting estates and exercising semi-seignorial, semi-episcopal functions throughout Weardale. 1997 Synodical Govt. in Church of Eng. 165 The following persons..shall be members of the House of Laity... (d) the three Church Estate Commissioners. < as lemmas |
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