[ noun ] an official residence provided by a church for its parson or vicar or rector <noun.artifact>
Parsonage \Par"son*age\, n. 1. (Eng. Eccl. Law) A certain portion of lands, tithes, and offerings, for the maintenance of the parson of a parish.
2. The glebe and house, or the house only, owned by a parish or ecclesiastical society, and appropriated to the maintenance or use of the incumbent or settled pastor.
3. Money paid for the support of a parson. [Scot.]
What have I been paying stipend and teind, parsonage and vicarage, for? --Sir W. Scott.
A minister, his wife and two of their daughters were discovered shot to death in the church parsonage as the congregation sang hymns next door.
Jim Bakker presented a $100 million offer for the failing PTL ministry during a bankruptcy court session in which his wife, Tammy, sobbed when the judge ordered the sale of the Bakkers' former parsonage.
The pictures included the Tega Cay parsonage, a Florida condominium and the presidential suite at the Heritage Grand Hotel.
Two churches, which opened their doors as temporary classrooms for North Omak Elementary School students, and a church parsonage have been set afire during the last two weeks.
Hours before the service, police divers resumed their search for a weapon in farm ponds near the parsonage, while a sheriff's horse patrol searched wooded areas nearby for evidence.
An arson charge stemming from a fire that caused $5,000 damage to a church parsonage was dismissed.
Mrs. Bakker broke into tears and sobbed for several minutes after Reynolds initially agreed to sell the PTL parsonage where the Bakkers lived while running the ministry.