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PREBENDARY OR CANON?

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PREBENDARY OR CANON? [FROX A correspondent.] There seems to be much uncertainty existir.g on this subject. By virtue of 3 and 4 Vic., chap 113, section 23, all bishops are empowered to confer distinctions of honour upon deserving clergymen, and it was enacted that honorary canonries should be thereby founded in every cathedral church in England in which there were not already founded any non-residentiary pre- bends, dignities, or offices; and the holders of such canonries were to be styled honorary canons, and to be entitled to stalls and to take rank in the cathedral church next after the canons. Iu twelve dioceses of the Southern Province these dignitaries, according to Crock- ford's Clerical Directory," are styled honorary canons, and in nine dioceses they are wrongly styled prebendaries, as will be hereafter shown. The Bishop of St. David's, in his chat go of 1880, used these" Jrds in describing the constitution of the then proposed Diocesac Con- ference :— It is intended that the Conference shall con- sist of the following persons, or classes of persons, viz.:—Of the clergy, first the bishop, and all members of the greater chapter (who, in accor- dance with the ancient constitution of the Church. form the council of the bishop)—these will include, together with the dean and the canons residentiary, the archdeacons and non-residentiary canons of the cathedral. In the Dioceses of St. David's and Llandaff these dignitaries are styled in Crockford" prebendaries; but in Llandaff they are uni- formly called canons by common consent and custom. In the Diocese of St. David's they are styled prebendaries, and are generally designated by that name. In the Deed of Institu- tion these persons are uniformly throughout the kingdom called prebendaries or canons," and have conferred upon them the prebend or canonry of," &c. Under these circumstances it seems desirable to ascertain which is the correct designation, that persons occupying the same position may be called and known by the same name. Prebendary may be the more honourable and ancient name, as being in existence prior to the Act above mentioned, but. for the sake of unifor- mity and facility of pronunciation, canon would, in many respects, be preferable. Prebendary is difficult for common people to pronounce, but evervbody could with ease use the word canon. Formerly, according to Phiilimore's Ecclesiastical Law (Vol. 1, page 167, A prebend is an endow- ment in land or pension in money given to a cathedral or conventual church in p-i ttbendam, that is, for the maintenance of a secular priest, or regular canon, who was a prebendary, as sup- ported by the said prebend A canonry, also, is a name of office, and a canon is the officer in liko manner as a prebendary; and a prebend is the maintenance, or stipend, both of the one or tha other." Recent Acts of Parliament have, however, wrought extensive changes in the condition and constitution of deans and chapters, and, so far as the two South Wales dioceses are specially con- cerned, there seems to be absolutely no choice as to the term which should be employed. Bv 3 and 4 Vic., chap. 113, sec. 1, it is enacted.— That from henceforth all tho members of chapter except the dean in every cathedral and collegiate church in England, and in the Cathedral Churches of St. David and. Llandaff. thall be stuled Canons,1\nd the precentor of the Cathedral Church of St. David and the warden of the C-ollegiate Church of Manchester shall be respectively styled dean. From this it will be observed that every member of the cathedral chapter ithe dean alone excepted) is, according to Act of Parliament, to be styled canon, and not prebendary. j

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