canon
Let an agent explain the office of canon in its secular and regular forms, relay how chapters are organised and what offices exist, identify historical and current uses across churches with attribution, and distinguish the office from other clerical roles and from other senses of the word canon.
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Purpose and description
Let an agent explain the office of canon in its secular and regular forms, relay how chapters are organised and what offices exist, identify historical and current uses across churches with attribution, and distinguish the office from other clerical roles and from other senses of the word canon.
A member of the clergy who belongs to the chapter of a cathedral or collegiate church, sharing in its worship, governance and property, or a canon regular living under a rule such as that of Saint Augustine; canons hold offices such as precentor, penitentiary and titular canon, historically included women in some chapters such as the abbesses of Buchau, and the title survives as an honour in several churches.
What it is for: Membership and offices in a cathedral or collegiate chapter, or religious life under a rule.
It can be explain secular and regular canons; relay chapter organisation and offices; identify uses across churches; distinguish from other senses of canon.
Distinguishing features
Chapter membership
Secular and regular forms
Named chapter offices
Honorary titles
What it looks like
A cleric in choir dress with distinctive insignia such as a mozzetta or cross in some churches.
How it is recognised
Member of a cathedral or collegiate chapter, or a canon regular
Offices such as precentor and penitentiary
Canon as a rule, list or body of texts is a different sense
Related models
is a kind of - in registry terms
is a kind of - in registry terms, usually a priest
is a member of - the body
is confused with - a different sense of the word
In practice
Families and kinds
secular canons of cathedral and collegiate chapters
canons regular such as Augustinians and Premonstratensians
chapter offices: dean, provost, precentor, penitentiary
titular and honorary canons
historical canonesses and abbesses of noble chapters such as Buchau
canons in Anglican and other churches
Standards and regulation
Canon law of the Catholic Church on chapters
Statutes of each chapter
Anglican and other church regulations on canons
Failure modes and hazards
Confusing senses of canon
Assuming uniform duties across churches
Anachronism in historical chapters
Also called
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Where this came from
wikidata · CC0 1.0
Also registered as vr.tr.canon-communication
Drafted structure
Bundle to layer to finding to question, as the second pass will find it: 4 bundles · 8 layers · 8 findings · 16 questions.
Role What a canon is.
Definition.
Definition
Definition and kinds.
Definition
Definition.
- What is a canon, and how do secular canons differ from canons regular? definition
- Is the question about the clerical office or another sense of canon? boundary
Offices
Chapter offices.
Offices
Offices.
- What offices exist within a chapter, such as precentor and penitentiary? definition
- Which entry fits the specific office? action
Chapter Chapters and duties.
Practice.
Duties
Duties.
Duties
Duties.
- What are the liturgical, governance and pastoral duties of canons? provenance
- Which entry fits cathedral chapter? action
Appointment
Appointment.
Appointment
Appointment.
- How are canons appointed, and what statutes govern them? provenance
- Which references are standard? provenance
Churches Across churches.
Attribution.
Catholic
Catholic usage.
Catholic
Catholic.
- How does Catholic canon law treat chapters and canons today? provenance
- Which entry fits canon law? action
Other
Anglican and other usage.
Other
Other.
- How do Anglican and other churches use the title, including honorary canons? provenance
- Is the presentation attributed? boundary
History History.
Context.
Development
Development.
Development
Development.
- How did canons and chapters develop from the early medieval church? provenance
- Which entry fits church history? action
Women
Canonesses and noble chapters.
Women
Women.
- What were canonesses and the abbesses of imperial chapters such as Buchau? provenance
- Which entry fits the specific chapter? action
What the second pass must settle
- Should canon regular be a separate entry?
- How should chapter statutes be linked?
- The registry entry has merged aliases naming specific offices and chapters; should they be split off?