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English
Etymology
Latin cimeliarcha, from Ancient Greek treasurer.
Noun
cimeliarch (plural cimeliarchs)
- (obsolete) A superintendent or keeper of a church's valuables; a churchwarden.
1865, Mackenzie Edward Charles Walcott, Cathedralia: a constitutional history of Cathedrals of the Western Church:Thirty-one canons, including archpriest, archdeacon, primicier, provost, and dean; and twenty-six cardinals, twelve being priests and nine deacons, and fire suhdeacons, one cimeliarch, or sacrist; beneficiati, including master of the ceremonies, four notaries, primicierius lectorum; five lectores in feudo, ten minor lectores in feudo, six mazo-canonici, two choral chaplains, four ducales, two perpetual vicars, parish priest of S. Michael's, two chaplains of S. Agnes, two sacrists, sixteen porters, thirty-two atipendiary chaplains, thirty-two praefects of fabric, eight clerks, their servants; twenty-five musicians, one hundred and forty clerks of the seminary.
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