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  • Title II, Appointment to Benefice: Bishops should be appointed by the Electoral Assembly of the department; they should be invested and consecrated by the metropolitan and take an oath of fidelity to the nation, the King, the Law, and the Constitution; they should not seek any confirmation from the pope.

    Archive 2007-08-12 de Brantigny........................ 2007

  • Title II, Appointment to Benefice: Bishops should be appointed by the Electoral Assembly of the department; they should be invested and consecrated by the metropolitan and take an oath of fidelity to the nation, the King, the Law, and the Constitution; they should not seek any confirmation from the pope.

    Genocide in the Vendee de Brantigny........................ 2007

  • Even if we held off the troops from the city, there was Benefice and the Limper.

    The White Rose Cook, Glen 1985

  • Limper and Benefice passed nearby as we moved north.

    The White Rose Cook, Glen 1985

  • Benefice rode the carpet at the center point of the W. "Ready?" the Lady shouted.

    The White Rose Cook, Glen 1985

  • For many years are spent before they can get a Parsonage or Benefice, and when it doth happen in some Country Town, the means will hardly maintain them.

    The Ten Pleasures of Marriage and the Second Part, The Confession of the New Married Couple A. Marsh

  • Title II, Appointment to Benefice: Bishops should be appointed by the

    The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 13: Revelation-Stock 1840-1916 1913

  • The various methods of designating persons for ecclesiastical benefices or offices have been described under Benefice; Bishop;

    The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 11: New Mexico-Philip 1840-1916 1913

  • Thus the "Courtisan and Benefice-eater" attacks the parasite of the Roman Court, who absorbs ecclesiastical revenues wholesale, putting in perfunctory _locum tenens_ on the cheap, and begins: --

    German Culture Past and Present Ernest Belfort Bax 1890

  • Charlemagne's successors these attempts were universally successful, and the Benefice gradually transformed itself into the hereditary

    Ancient Law Its Connection to the History of Early Society Henry Sumner Maine 1855

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