guardian of the temporalities

guardian of the temporalities. Eccles. law. The person to whom custody of the secular possessions of a vacant see or abbey is committed by the Crown. • Temporalities (secular possessions) are the land, revenue, and tene-ments that archbishops and bishops have had annexed to their sees.

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