Ecclesiastical Commissioners

The Ecclesiastical Commissioners were, in England and Wales, a body corporate, whose full title was Ecclesiastical and Church Estates Commissioners for England. The commissioners were authorised to determine the distribution of revenues of the Church of England, and they made extensive changes in how revenues were distributed.[1] The modern successor body thereof are the Church Commissioners.

  1. ^  One or more of the preceding sentences incorporates text from a publication now in the public domainChisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). "Ecclesiastical Commissioners". Encyclopædia Britannica. Vol. 8 (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press. p. 853.