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[cyrano]

Is there a name for the building where a bishop would do office-type work? Some sort of administrative church location? Or is it just 'the offices' or whatever?

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[tenacious-snail.livejournal.com]

Sacristry? Vestry?

[melimus.livejournal.com]

Rectory, sacristy is in the church, vestry is near the alter and where the peiest dresses for mass. Although bishops and above do have large admin areas.

[eyelessgame.livejournal.com]

Priests often do their administrative work in their rectories (though the word just means where they live.) My god there are a lot of different names for the house where the preacher lives. Rectory, if you're Catholic; convent, if you're a woman; vicarage, if you're British; manse, if you're Scottish or Methodist; monastery, if you can fall 40' for no damage if within 8 feet of a wall; pastorium, if you're Southern; parsonage, if you're Lutheran.

[ophymirage.livejournal.com]

monastery, if you can fall 40' for no damage if within 8 feet of a wall

My keyboard thanks you for its inadvertent coffee bath. :D

[tersa.livejournal.com]

With ophymirage: glad I wasn't drinking anything when I read about the monasteries. Clever. :)

[technocowboy.livejournal.com]

Junior High?

Sorry. Had to go there. I'm bitter. ;-)

[yukonsally]

In Methodism, it's the office, usually the conference office.

[kirbyk.livejournal.com]

I would call it the diagonalarium.

[cyranocyrano.livejournal.com]

You are a bad man.