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PREBEND
The stipend due to a canon from the revenues of a church. According to Church law, if the revenues prove insufficient, a bishop may draw on other sources to make up the deficit.
All items in this dictionary are from Fr. John Hardon's Modern Catholic Dictionary, © Eternal Life. Used with permission.
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