
Trusteeism and the trustee system are practices and institutions within certain parishes of the Roman Catholic Church in the United States, under which laymen participate in the administration of Ecclesiastical Property. When laymen are among the trustees, the Church seeks agreement with the civil authorities to have the property administered unde...
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in Roman Catholicism, a controversy concerning lay control of parish administration in the late 18th and 19th centuries in the United States. ...
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