Licensed lay administrators may be authorised by a bishop to assist in the distribution of Holy Communion.
Joseph became the first lay administrator in the Catholic Church in Canada, in 1639.
A new lay administrator is to be appointed by the Bishop.
At the same time, politicians were increasingly pressed for answers to problems against which the measured, patrician tones of the lay administrator seemed amateur and outdated.
Staff were delighted, while lay administrators fumed.
The hospitals that did exist were primarily custodial institutions, strictly run by lay administrators or founders.
The leaders are said to have included not only key lay administrators... but also some of the leading Siyam Nikaya monks.
After some months, because he could not bear the strict discipline, he withdraw from the monastic life working simply as lay administrator of the monastery.
(Harry Sladich, a lay academic administrator, had previously served as president for two terms, but in an acting, interim basis).
He was succeeded by Tarasios, who was a lay administrator at the time.