Thesaurary
Thesaurar (Thesaurarius) is an office in church institutions such as cathedral chapters , collegiate chapters , monasteries and religious orders of knights . The thesaurary was one of the dignities in the cathedral or collegiate chapter, which also included the provost , the cathedral or collegiate dean , the scholaster and the cantor, and mostly also the cellar . In monasteries he was responsible to the abbot , in cathedral and collegiate chapters to the provost.
The thesaurary was responsible for the property and asset management of the chapter or monastery. He was responsible for the administration of the so-called factory property ( fabrica ecclesiae ), i.e. H. the property consisting of buildings, land, vineyards, forests, quarries, mills, capital, foundations, pensions, church sacrifices, etc. and intended for the construction and maintenance of the church or monastery complex as well as for the needs of religious celebrations and rites. He was responsible for the bookkeeping and therefore also took care of the proper receipt of tithes and other duties. His area of responsibility included u. a. responsibility for the liturgical furnishings and the sacristy ; their maintenance and the corresponding staff, from sacristan to bell-ringer, were under his control. Later he was supported or replaced by one or more sextons and he himself only kept the asset management of these matters. The treasury of the cathedral, monastery or church also belonged to the area of responsibility of the thesaurary .
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literature
- Michael Bollesen: The Cathedral Chapter in Legal History and Present. GRIN Verlag GmbH, Munich 2008, ISBN 978-3-638-92899-1 .
- Stephan Haering , Burghard Pimmer-Jüsten, Martin Rehak : Statutes of the German cathedral chapters (= Subsidia ad ius canonicum vigens applicandum. 6). Abtei-Verlag, Metten 2003, ISBN 3-930725-02-9 .
- Hermann Hoberg (Ed.): The income of the Apostolic Chamber under Innocent VI. First part: The income registers of the papal thesaurary (= Vatican sources on the history of the papal court and financial administration 1316-1378. Vol. 7). Schöningh, Munich et al. 1955.
- Eva Jüsten: The cathedral chapter according to the Codex Iuris Canonici from 1983 with special consideration of the legal situation in Germany and Austria (= European university publications. Series 2: Jurisprudence. 1386) Lang, Frankfurt am Main et al. 1993, ISBN 3-631-46029-5 ( At the same time: Regensburg, Univ., Diss., 1992).
- Guy P. Marchal : Cathedral Chapter. In: Theological Real Encyclopedia . Volume 9: Dionysius Exiguus - Episcopalism. de Gruyter, Berlin et al. 1982, ISBN 3-11-008573-9 , pp. 136-140.
- Richard Puza : The cathedral and collegiate chapters. In: Joseph Listl, Heribert Schmitz (ed.): Handbook of Catholic Church Law. 2nd completely revised edition. Pustet, Regensburg 1999, ISBN 3-7917-1664-6 , pp. 475-479.
- Rudolf Schieffer : The emergence of cathedral chapters in Germany (= Bonn historical research. 43). Röhrscheid, Bonn 1976, ISBN 3-7928-0378-X (also: Bonn, Univ., Philos. Fak., Diss., 1975).
- Orby Shipley (Ed.): Glossary of Ecclesiastical Terms. Containing Brief Explanations of Words Used in Dogmatic Theology. Legacy reprint. Kessinger Publishing Company, Whitefish MT 2007, ISBN 978-0-54827423-1 .
