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Some tycoons have crafted named benefices: the Broad and David Geffen foundations, for example.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 3, 2025

By signing the Act of Separation, 474 clergymen and professors surrendered the benefices they held under the Establishment.

From Time Magazine Archive

Through the appointment of bishops, deans and through the patronage of many benefices, it would be possible for the State to control the Church for its own purposes..

From Time Magazine Archive

Nearly 2,600 are benefices controlled by Anglican laymen as private patrons.

From Time Magazine Archive

The churches were restored the right of freely electing their prelates, and collators the disposal of other benefices.

From The Power Of The Popes by Daunou, Pierre Claude Fran?ois