A priest in charge is a priest in charge of a parish who does not receive the temporalities of the parish. That is, he or she is not legally responsible for the churches and glebe, simply holds a licence rather than freehold and is not appointed by advowson. The appointment of priests in charge rather than incumbents (one who does receive the temporalities) is sometimes done when parish reorganisation is taking place or to give the bishop greater control over the deployment of clergy. Roman Catholic priests in clerical clothing. ... A parish is a type of administrative subdivision. ... To meet Wikipedias quality standards, this article may require cleanup. ... In medieval Europe, a glebe was an area of land, belonging to a parish, whose revenues contributed towards the parish expenses. ... Freehold is a term used in real estate or real property law, land held in fee simple, as opposed to leasehold, which is land which is leased. ... Advowson is the right in English law of presenting a nominee to a vacant ecclesiastical benefice. ... Two bishops assist at the Exhumation of Saint Hubert, who was a bishop too, at the église Saint-Pierre in Liège. ... Clergy is the generic term used to describe the formal religious leadership within a given religion. ...

Legally, priests in charge are temporary curates, as they have only spiritual responsibilities. Even though they lead the ministry in their parishes, their legal status is little different to assistant curates. However, the term priest in charge has come to be used because the term curate often refers to an assistant curate, who is not in charge of a parish. The stipend of a priest in charge is often the equivalent of that of an incumbent, and so they are sometimes referred to as having incumbent status. From the Latin curatus (compare Curator), a curate is a person who is invested with the care, or cure (cura), of souls of a parish. ... A stipend is a form of payment or salary, such as for an internship or apprenticeship. ...

In the Church of Ireland, priests in charge are referred to as bishop's curates. Church of Ireland The Church of Ireland (Irish: Eaglais na hÉireann) is an autonomous province of the Anglican Communion, operating seamlessly across the border between the Republic of Ireland and Northern Ireland. ...