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How to pronounce deanery in English?

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Synonyms deanship
Type of billet, office, place, position, post, situation, berth, spot
Type Words
Type of residence

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It is said that he asked the king in vain to give him the deanery of Canterbury.
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The deanery had been made vacant by the death of the long-serving Gilbert Fleming.
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Also within this deanery is the Parish Church of St Mark, built in the early 1960s.
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After the accession of James II, Crew also received the deanery of the Chapel Royal.
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At the same time, the deanery of Bangor was transferred to the Diocese of St. Asaph.
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Serving also as a school, the Abbey has an adjacent cloister, a museum and a deanery.
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He served on the deanery synod in Oldham and Saddleworth and later on the diocesan synod.
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There are sixteen Church of England churches in the Wakefield deanery.
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They are affiliated with the deanery of Pforzheim which belongs to Archdiocese of Freiburg.
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  • The official residence of a dean
  • Deanship: the position or office of a dean
  • Deanery is an ecclesiastical entity in both the Catholic Church and the Church of England. They see over the church and its contents.
  • An NHS Deanery is a regional organisation, within the structure of the UK National Health Service (NHS), responsible for postgraduate medical and dental training. it appears that deaneries are regarded under UK law as employment agencies, and so are subject to the appropriate UK law.
  • The Deanery and Deanery Garden is a garden designed by Gertrude Jekyll, with a house designed by Sir Edwin Lutyens, in Sonning, Berkshire, England.
  • A group of parishes forming a subdivision of an archdeaconry; also referred to as a rural deanery
  • Deaneries are the bodies that deal with postgraduate education for doctors. The Fitness to Practise Panel has the power to refer a doctor to the Postgraduate Dean for a remediation package to be put in place.
  • A district of the diocese, usually a territorial division, is a deanery. A diocese must be divided into deaneries by canon law.
  • Several parishes form a Deanery. This unit is administered by one of the Priests' of the Deanery who has the title; 'Dean'.