A-Z: General definitions
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A-Z: General definitions: Rectory
Definition
The house in which a rector lives.
A priest who has charge of a parish. Until the twentieth century rectors had the right to the income from a parish church. In the Middle Ages many rectors appointed vicars (Latin vicarius, substitute) to care for the parish in their place.
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