The son of a rich lawyer, his father's influence early secured him a canonry in the cathedral; there he established a school, where free elementary instruction was given to poor children.
Nevertheless he took orders, and owing to the influence of his uncle obtained the bishopric of Veszprem in Hungary from King John Zapolya, besides holding a canonry of Cracow and the office of royal secretary.
In the summer of 1851, Arthur Stanley had been appointed to a canonry at Canterbury, which was a great delight to me as well as to him.
His canonry was situated in its own garden, reached by the narrow paved passage called "the Brick Walk," which then intersected the buildings on the north-east of the cathedral.
Mrs. Gladstone was at the Canonry and made herself very pleasant to everybody.
Arthur Stanley had been made Professor of Ecclesiastical History at Oxford before we had gone abroad, and, while we were absent, a Canonry at Christ Church, attached to the professorship, had fallen in to him.
We passed the latter part of the winter between the Penrhyns' house at Sheen, Aunt Kitty's house of 6 Grosvenor Crescent, and Arthur Stanley's Canonry at Canterbury.
Phillpotts, the celebrated Bishop of Exeter, who had a Canonry at Durham.
At the same time he doubtless harbours a lower personal ambition, that of attaining to a canonry or of gaining assistance in the little worries of life, as when he wished to extricate his brother from trouble.
The canonry will, of course, depend wholly upon him.
II The next morning, on awaking, Birotteau thought so much of his prospective canonry that he forgot the four circumstances in which he had seen, the night before, such threatening prognostics of a future full of misery.
The canonry seemed to him small compensation for so much misery, and he compared his life to a stocking in which a single dropped stitch resulted in destroying the whole fabric.
After hearing these terrible words, Birotteau forgot the canonry and ran downstairs as quickly as a young man to find Mademoiselle Gamard.
In 1887 he was presented to a canonry in Bristol cathedral, and he was chaplain-in-ordinary to Queen Victoria and King Edward VII.
The pope appointed Allen to a canonryin Courtrai and sent him back to Douai (July 1576); but here he had to face a new difficulty.
According to Anthony Wood, he was appointed to a canonry at York in or about 1558; he therefore had already entered the clerical state by receiving the tonsure.
Latin the history of the kings of France, and was presented to a canonry in Notre Dame.
Bosch proves that he never was canon of Asti, but enjoyed some years a canonry at Sienna, as he himself informs us.
The prelate, according to the custom of those times, made him his chamberlain when he was only sixteen years old, afterward promoted him to the first orders, and instituted him to a canonry in his cathedral.
He was first instituted to a canonry at Cracow, but afterward promoted to be conservator of Sendomir.
In 1383 his brother, the count of St. Pol, obtained for him a canonry in our Lady’s at Paris; which ecclesiastical preferment was to him a new motive to increase his fervor in the divine service.
Thus Gaspar Escudero promptly went to Rome and resigned his canonryof Calahorra in the hands of the pope, and his brother Rafael obtained bulls for it--probably subject to a pension.
Simultaneously a similar quarrel was on foot with the chapter of Barcelona, over the grant of a canonry to the Inquisitor of Saragossa, who was already Archdeacon of Almazan, and this was likewise carried to Rome.
He was roused to indignation when, in September of that year, papal letters were presented to the chapter granting a canonry to Doctor Hernan Ximenes, whose father had been reconciled by the Inquisition.
The inquisitors and fiscal, on their side, usually held some canonry or other benefice which served to make good all deficiencies.
It was the same with a pension of fifty ducats, on a suppressed canonry of Cuenca, for which bulls were obtained by Juan Rodriguez and Pedro Vara.
It is probable that these briefs encountered resistance, for, in this latter case, we chance to hear of a prolonged struggle required to install Doctor Manuel Fernandez Angulo of the Suprema in the Seville canonry given to him.
A canonrynot being legally a "cure of souls," a canon may hold a benefice in addition to his prebend, in spite of the acts against pluralities.
By the Canons of 1603 he was subject to discipline if he made his canonry an excuse for neglecting his cure.
Not satisfied with a canonry of Beauvais and a church with a cure of souls, we find him, in 1247, obtaining of Innocent IV.
Foulques suffered somewhat in public estimation from the backsliding of Pierre de Roissi, whom he had taken as an associate, and who in preaching poverty amassed wealth and obtained a canonry at Chartres, where he rose to be chancellor.
Neither could a minor canonry be called a "living.
Well, he has recently been appointed to a minor canonry in that same cathedral," resumed Mr. Halliburton.
You will be trying for a minor canonry now, Gar, I suppose, living so near to it?
When the Canonry of Windsor became vacant Lady Conyngham asked the King to give it to Mr. Sumner,[4] who had been Mount Charles's tutor.
Lord Liverpool caused the nomination of Mr. Sumner to a canonry of Windsor to be cancelled, because he had not been consulted.
Having entered the church, he became archdeacon of Middlesex, and obtained also a canonry in Wells Cathedral, and in 1595 he was raised to the bishopric of Bangor.
He subsequently retired to Wales, where he was appointed chaplain to Bishop Barrow, who, besides other preferment, gave him a canonry in the diocese of St. Asaph.
When in 1884 Gladstone appointed Holland to a Canonry at St. Paul's, the announcement was received with an amount of interest which is not often bestowed upon ecclesiastical promotions.
Honorary Canonryin the Cathedral Church in Norwich, vacated by the death of the Rev.
Bishop of Lincoln to an honorary canonry of Lincoln Cathedral, at the early age of 29 years.
The third canonry was held for your Majesty by Doctor Juan Mre Briseño, and on account of his death two or three have served it ad interim.
While he was chaplain to Don Juan Niño de Tavora, formerly governor of these islands, a canonry became vacant and was given to him.
He is thirty years old, and was given thecanonry a little more than a year and a half ago.
The first canonry is held for your Majesty by Juan de Miranda Salazar, through the death of Don Juan Valentin.
He served the canonry ad interim in the cathedral, and it was taken from him last year because the one which he was serving happened to be the one which was suppressed.
This canonry is being served by him ad interim through nomination by the former governor, Don Juan Cerezo, who came to govern ad interim.
He is about thirty-four years of age, more or less, and has served the saidcanonry more than six years.
In 1873 this was exchanged for a canonry at Westminster.
In addition to his Canonry of Glasney, he also held the Rectory of Phillack, the patronage of which was then vested in the Arundell family.
As a step in this long dispute it seems that Bishop Walter de Stapleton must have issued a commission to certain clergy, possibly for the purpose of instituting John de Beaupre to the vacant canonry in the Chapel of Buryan.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "canonry" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word. Other words: archbishopric; bishopric; curacy; deanery; episcopacy; pastorate; presbytery; primacy
