incumbent

Japanese: incumbent
incumbent

...The general assembly of parishioners is called the common vestry, and the church committee is called the select vestry. If the rector, who collects the tithes, is a religious corporation or other entity and is absent from the village, a priest called a vicar or incumbent may be appointed as a vicar for the pastoral care of the parishioners. The English parish was also a unit of local administration.

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Japanese:

…したがって教区民の全体集会を教区総会common vestryと呼び,教会委員会をselect vestryと呼ぶ。十分の一税の収納者であるレクターが宗教法人等であって,村に不在の場合,教区民の牧会のために,代牧者として,ビカーvicarあるいはインカンベントincumbentと呼ばれる司祭が任命されることがある。 このようなイギリスの教区は,地方行政の単位でもあった。…

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