This article describes the clergy remuneration of Sokolow parish throughout the 19 th and 20 th centuries. Special attention is paid here to the source of income and its amount as well as the rules of using property, in the main farmland. Clergy remuneration included, among others, the income from fee iura stolae, mass grants, state salaries, office fees, priest’s visits, prayers for the dead, and dividends collected for farmland, grazing land, meadows and forests. Parishes or other church institutions are founded in order to deepen spiritual lives of believers, however, its efficient functioning requires financial resources. Getting resources to maintain them requires taking some legal steps which later secure their functioning. Foundations started by people or groups of people, after being approved by diocesan authorities, are called beneficiaries. Catholic donors of a church or parish benefice, so called collators and their legal purchasers, as a result of inheritance, were granted the privilege of patronage which means presenting candidates to this benefice. Local parish had good remuneration because on the basis of old privileges, it possessed its own part of land within the town Sokolow.
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