Rector

Rector (Lat. 'ruler'), in the Church of England, is a clergyman who has the charge and cure of a parish where the tithes are not inappropriate, and who accordingly has the whole right to the ecclesiastical dues therein; where the tithes are inappropriate the parson is a Vicar (q.v.). In the Episcopal Churches of the United States and (since 1890) Scotland all incumbents are called rectors. See also EDUCATION, and UNIVERSITIES.