- 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...
-
subordinate officers as
minor canons, gospellers, epistolers, etc. The
precentorship in
these churches of the "New Foundation", as they are called, is not...
- Cathedral. With
further preferment,
Lonsdale p****ed in 1828 to the
precentorship of the
diocese of Lichfield,
later exchanged for a
prebend at St Paul's...
- College, Oxford, he was
ordained in 1725, his
uncle appointing him to the
Precentorship of Lismore.
Although he was English, his
whole forty-year life of service...
- were
given on 23 March. He
received licence to hold in
commendam the
precentorship and
other positions,
because of the
extent of his
diocese and its expense...
-
several benefices at the same time: the
Provostship of Gr****e, the
Precentorship of the
Church of Béziers, a
Canonry at Clermont, a
Canonry at Narbonne...
