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See also:COMMISSARY (from Med. See also:Lat. commissaries, one to whom a See also:charge or See also:trust is committed) , generally, a representative; e.g., the See also:emperor's representative who presided in his See also:absence over the imperial See also:diet; and especially, an ecclesiastical See also:official who exercises in See also:special circumstances the See also:jurisdiction of a See also:bishop, (q.v.); in the See also:- CHURCH
- CHURCH (according to most authorities derived from the Gr. Kvpcaxov [&wµa], " the Lord's [house]," and common to many Teutonic, Slavonic and other languages under various forms—Scottish kirk, Ger. Kirche, Swed. kirka, Dan. kirke, Russ. tserkov, Buig. cerk
- CHURCH, FREDERICK EDWIN (1826-1900)
- CHURCH, GEORGE EARL (1835–1910)
- CHURCH, RICHARD WILLIAM (1815–189o)
- CHURCH, SIR RICHARD (1784–1873)
Church of See also:England this jurisdiction is exercised in a See also:Consistory See also:Court (q.v.), except in See also:Canterbury, where the court of the diocesan as opposed to the See also:metropolitan jurisdiction of the See also:archbishop is called a commissary court, and the See also:judge is the commissary See also:general of the See also:city and See also:diocese of Canterbury. When a see is vacant the jurisdiction is exercised by a " special commissary " of the metropolitan. Commissary is also a general military See also:term for an official charged with the duties of See also:supply, transport and See also:finance of an See also:army. In the 17th and 18th centuries the commissaire See also:des guerres, or Kriegskormisslir was an important official in See also:continental armies, by whose agency the troops, in their relation to the See also:civil inhabitants, were placed upon semi-See also:political See also:control. In See also:French military See also:law, commissarres du gouvernement represent the See also:ministry of See also:war on military tribunals, and more or less correspond to the See also:British judge-See also:advocate (see COURT-See also:MARTIAL).
End of Article: COMMISSARY (from Med. Lat. commissaries, one to whom a charge or trust is committed)
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