Rural Dean
Dictionary of Terms and Phrases Used in American or English Jurisprudence · Benjamin Vaughan Abbott · 1879
Dictionary of Terms and Phrases Used in American or English Jurisprudence
An officer of the established church in England, generally a parochial clergyman, appointed to act under the bishop or archdeacon; his proper duty being to inspect the conduct of the parochial clergy, to inquire into and report dilapidations, and to examine candidates for conilrmation.
Cowel; 1 Bl. Com. 383: 2 Steph. Com. 676, 677.
Rural deanery
The circuit of the jurisdiction of a rural dean. Every diocese is divided into archdeaconries, each archdeaconry into rural deaneries, and each ru-