CURE

The spiritual charge of a parish, or, in a larger sense, the parish itself. When Christianity was first planted in this nation, the bishops were constantly resident at their cathedrals, and had several clergymen attending them at that place, whom they sent to preach and convert the people, where there was the greatest probability of succe ; and the persons thus sent either returned or continued in those places, as occasion required, having no fixed cures or titles to particular places; for being all entered in the bishop’s registry, (as the usual course then was,) they could not be discharged without his consent. Afterwards, when Christianity prevailed, and many churches were built, the cure of souls was limited both as to places and persons. The places are those which we now call parishes, the extent whereof is certainly known, and the boundaries are now fixed by long usage and custom. The parsons are the ministers, who, by presentation, institution, and induction, are entitled to the tithes and other ecclesiastical profits arising within that parish, and have the cure of souls of those who live and reside there: and this the canonists call a cure In foro interior i tantum ; and they distinguish it from a cure of souls, In foro exterior i, such as archdeacons have, to suspend, excommunicate, and absolve, and which is Sine pastorali cur a : and from another cure, which they say is In utroque simul , that is, both In exterior i et interior i foro : and such the bishop has, who has a superintendent care over the whole diocese, intermixed with jurisdiction. IMG:2516882409276230900_i274.jpg:[Cusps]