obedientiary

In addition, the obedientiary contracted new statutes, similar to those created in Furnas in 1619.

An Introduction to the Obedientiary & Manor Rolls of Norwich Cathedral Priory.

The answer was that, when they were in one of the two churches, he who was the dean of the church where they were was the spiritual father of the other, and the other his obedientiary.'

They were at the end of routine business, and Cadfael's attention had wandered away from the details of the cellarer's accounts, since he himself had no function as an obedientiary, and was content to leave such matters to those who had.

He also said it weakened discipline: I have even heard that when there were two canons [holding benefices] in two churches and one was dean in one and the other in the other, it was asked which was the spiritual father of the other, and which the obedientiary.