Citations:œconom


 * 1) One who manages a residency.


 * 1867, Julius Ferrette, The Holy Canons of the Seven Œcumenic Synods, page 32:
 * Whereas in some churches, as we have been informed, the bishops manage the ecclesiastical affairs without œconoms, it has been deemed right that every church which has a bishop should also have an œconom from among its clergy, who should administer the ecclesiastical property according to the advice of the bishop; so that the administration of the church should not be without witness, and this be an occasion for the dilapidation of the goods of the said church, and a source of reproach for the priesthood itself : and that if the bishop do not do this, he fall under the sacred Canons.
 * 1884, Harper’s Magazine, Harper & Brothers; Volume LXVIII, page #693:
 * His son and sucessor, John George, was a man of a different stamp, and was, in fact, called “Œconom”—the steward—because of his frugal and systematic mthods.