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

As Clissold Park it was bought from the Ecclesiastical Commissioners for ninety-six thousand pounds, and formally opened by Lord Rosebery in 1889.

From Chatterbox, 1905. by Various

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

It thus became one of the Dean's peculiars, until in the last century his property was vested in the Ecclesiastical Commissioners, and the patronage transferred to the Archbishop.

From The Evolution of an English Town by Home, Gordon

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 Green, John Richard

What better could the Ecclesiastical Commissioners do with all those rich revenues which they had stolen from the bishops?

From The Last Chronicle of Barset by Trollope, Anthony