Maybe we shall soon see the end of stipendiary priests as we have known them.

By contrast, 111 women chose to be stipendiary priests and 179 went for self-supporting ministry.

The church was no longer able to afford a stipendiary priest and was given a year to reverse the slide.

Among men, 173 chose when they entered theological training colleges to be stipendiary priests and 100 decided to take other jobs alongside unpaid work in parishes.

There would be only 1 and 4/5ths stipendiary priests in such a group as one fifth of my time is already deemed to be spent as Rural Dean.

On 11 December 1518, the canons elected Zwingli to become the stipendiary priest and on 27 December he moved permanently to Zurich.

Among men, 173 chose to become stipendiary priests while 100 opted for other ministries, while 111 women wanted to be stipendiary priests and 179 selected other tasks.

As we all know, in a number of rural Dioceses we have seen develop the idea of the local priest, since the stipendiary priest can no longer be supplied to small and isolated groups.

Nearly 100 clergy from the London diocese, which has 470 stipendiary priests, signed a letter to The Times newspaper urging that priests be allowed to follow their individual conscience on whether to hold civil partnership ceremonies in their churches.

But for these unbeneficed churches and chapels-of-ease, lay purchasers of the canons' tithing rights could not themselves fulfil the spiritual obligations of a parochial cure, and nor was it considered proper that they appoint stipendiary priests for the function, as the canons had done.

From the mid-14th century onwards the canons were able to exploit their hybrid status to justify petitions for papal privileges of appropriation, allowing them to fill vicarages in their possession either from among their own number, or from secular stipendiary priests removable at will; arrangements which corresponded to those for their chapels of ease.