Ecclesiastical Commissioners

British  

plural noun

1. the administrators of the properties of the Church of England from 1836 to 1948, when they were combined with Queen Anne's Bounty to form the Church Commissioners

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Ecclesiastical Commissioners

The Ecclesiastical Commissioners, to whom the Fen Chapel Estates were transferred in 1876, pay £120 a year for a curate, who now is the Rev. Harold E. Curtis. 

From A History of Horncastle from the earliest period to the present time by James Conway Walter

He ordered the Ecclesiastical Commissioners to deprive them of their sees; but in this matter even the Commissioners shrank from obeying him.

From History of the English People, Volume VII The Revolution, 1683-1760; Modern England, 1760-1767 by John Richard Green

Ecclesiastical Commissioners, in England, a body corporate, constituted in 1836, with extensive powers in regard to the organization of the Church, the distribution of episcopal duties, and the formation of parishes.

From The New Gresham Encyclopedia Volume 4, Part 2: Ebert to Estremadura by Various

When the Ecclesiastical Commissioners were here two years ago they said this was the most interesting part of the house.

From Night and Day by Virginia Woolf

Inconveniences.—Contains no power of conveyance to a Body Corporate except permission given to make Ecclesiastical Commissioners trustees of the site. p.

From Churchwardens' Manual their duties, powers, rights, and privilages by George Henry Sumner