Office

Office is a term for an administration without precedence in choir or chapter. The financial provost and procurator; the precentor, chancellor, and treasurer of Beverly; monks elected by the prior and seniors, and confirmed in authority by the bishop in a conventual cathedral, were called officers, the term designating now the vice-dean, treasurer, and receiver-general of the new foundations.

⇒Bible concordance for OFFICER.

⇒Definition of office

⇒See also the International Standard Bible Encyclopedia.