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He was ordained priest in 1864 and served a second curacy at St Mary's Folkestone.
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These are generally more junior clergy, who in a parish church would be serving a curacy.
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In 1639 he was elected to the perpetual curacy of St Mary Aldermanbury in London, where he had a large following.
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James Hay, 2nd Earl of Carlisle made him his chaplain, and presented him in 1648 or 1649 to the curacy of Waltham Abbey.
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He was ordained deacon of Ely in 1819, and priest in 1820, and soon afterwards took the curacy of St Dunstan-in-the-West.
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Following the Restoration, the holders of the curacy changed rapidly, often remaining in the position for only a few years at a time.
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The traditional view is that he supported himself financially by holding a curacy in Much Hoole, near Preston in Lancashire, but there is little evidence for this.
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Fraser, served his curacy on a rundown Midlands council housing estate and for 10 years was vicar of Putney parish church in one of the most well-heeled parts of London.
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Unusually, he undertook no formal curacy until 1980 when he served at St George's Chesterton until 1983, having been appointed as a lecturer in divinity at the University of Cambridge.
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- The position of a curate
- (curate) a person authorized to conduct religious worship; "clergymen are usually called ministers in Protestant churches"
- From the Latin curatus (compare Curator), a curate is a person who is invested with the care, or cure (cura), of souls of a parish. In this sense it correctly means a parish priest. In Anglican churches, however, the term is usually used for an assistant priest or deacon. ...
- (Curates) In some denominations of Christianity, the cure of souls (cura animarum), an archaic translation which is better rendered today as "care of souls," is the exercise by a priest of his office. ...
- (curate) an assistant rector or vicar; a parish priest; to act as a curator
- (Curate) From Latino curatus, meaning "the person in charge." The term should mean the "head priest" if literally interpreted, but instead has come to refer to a transitional deacon or an assistant to the rector. ...
- (Curate) Normally an ordained person in their first three to four years of ministry in a local parish.
- (Curate) In the Anglican communion, an assistant pastor.
- (CURATE) eccl. Iaw. One who represents the incumbent of a church, person, or20 vicar, and tades care of the church, and performs divine service in his stead.
