- A
precentor is a
person who
helps facilitate worship. The
details vary
depending on the religion, denomination, and era in question. The
Latin derivation...
-
services secured for him
canonries at
Hereford and St Paul's, and the
precentorship of
Exeter Cathedral. In 1331 he
retired to
country living (in Wraysbury...
-
Bishop of London, he made
Grindal one of his
chaplains and gave him the
precentorship of St Paul's Cathedral.
Grindal was soon
promoted to be one of King...
-
admitted treasurer of the
church of Lichfield, with
which he held the
precentorship.
Blythe was one of the
divines who
preached at
Cambridge against Hugh...
- he held
until his
death in 1524. His
clerical benefices included the
Precentorship of York Minster. His
ordination was
connected with his
retirement from...
- c. 25 Unions, etc., of the
certain prebends and
appropriations to
precentorship,
treasurership and
archdeaconry of
Glendalough in St. Patrick's, Dublin...
- livings" in
Galloway as
early as 1421. He is
found in
possession of the
precentorship of
Dornoch Cathedral, seat (cathedra) of the
diocese of Caithness, when...
- to a
Royal Duke, had a
stall at Wells, a
prebend at Norwich, and a
precentorship in
Ireland was promised, by the
Archbishop of Canterbury, the next vacant...
- and
Precentor in 1959. He
retired in 1958,
retaining his
Canonry and
Precentorship until the
following year, and
becoming an ****istant Bishop of Lincoln...
- and
returned to
Perth to set up in business.
Kennedy then
obtained a
precentorship in Edinburgh, and in 1859
began there a
series of w****ly concerts. Short...
