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In the Anglican Church, a cleric in charge of a parish and who owns the tithes of it.

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In the Roman Catholic Church, a cleric with managerial as well as spiritual responsibility for a church or other institution.

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A priest or bishop who is in charge of a parish or in an administrative leadership position in a theological seminary or academy.

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In a Protestant church, a pastor in charge of a church with administrative and pastoral leadership combined.

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A headmaster in various educational institutions, e.g. a university.

The term is used in this general sense in certain rubrics of the English Book of Common Prayer, in which it is applied equally to rectors and vicars as to perpetual curates.

Sacheverell was among its rectors (1713-1724), and Thomas Chatterton (1770) was interred in the adjacent burial ground, no longer extant, of Shoe Lane Workhouse; the register recording his Christian name as William.

Among the rectors of Hadleigh several notable names appear, such as Rowland Taylor, the martyr, who was burned at the stake outside the town in 1 555, and Hugh James Rose, during whose tenancy of the rectory an initiatory meeting of the leaders of the Oxford Movement took place here in 1833.

These extensive domains were usually administered by specially appointed agents, - rectors and defensors, - who resided on the spot; but the general superintendence devolved upon the pope.

He was so well acquainted with the contents of the volumes which he exposed for sale that the country rectors of Staffordshire and Worcestershire thought him an oracle on points of learning.

Hence in England the distinction between rectors, who draw both the greater and lesser tithes, and vicars, who are attached to parishes of which the great tithes, formerly held by monasteries, are now drawn by lay rectors.

The list of rectors is complete from 1199.

The city is in the diocese of Upsala, but has a separate consistory, composed of the rectors of the city parishes, the president of which is the rector of St Nicholas (Storkyrka).

Podesta s or rectors were first appointed by the emperor Frederick I.

Bohemia sends 130 deputies to the Reichsrat at Vienna; the local diet, to which belong ex officio the archbishop, the three bishops, and the two rectors of the universities, consists of 242 members.

There were 14,029 incumbents (rectors, vicars, and perpetual curates), 7500 curates, i.e.

It paints popes, cardinals, prelates, rectors, monks and friars, who call themselves followers of Peter and keepers of the gates of heaven and hell, and pale poverty-stricken people, cotless and landless, who have to pay the fat clergy for spiritual assistance, and asks if these are Peter's priests.

It was found also that many of the poorer rectors and parish priests, and a great many chaplains and curates, were in secret association with the Lollards, so much so that in many places processions were never made and worship on saints' days was abandoned.

The local Diet is composed of 151 members, including the 3 archbishops, the 5 bishops, and the 2 rectors of the universities, and Galicia sends 78 deputies to the Reichsrat at Vienna.

The heads of all Jesuit colleges are "rectors."

On the suppression of the monasteries the "great tithes" were often bestowed by the crown on laymen, who, as owning the rectorial tithes, were and are known as "lay rectors."

In the American Protestant Episcopal Church the incumbents of churches are called rectors.

The chancel, built at the expense of the lay rectors, is fitted with oak seats.

After the Dissolution, the rectories and advowsons formerly held by monastic houses were sold, so that there were many lay rectors.

She lived on the best of terms with all the rectors ' wives around her.

List of Rectors for 600 years, set up in 1936.