advowson

noun

1. (UK)The right to present a nominee to a vacant ecclesiastical benefice or church office.

   “The advowson of the parsonages of Sempringham and Tirington, being the right of his father, he [St. Gilbert] was presented by him [his father] to those united livings, in 1123.”

   “Advowson is the right to appoint the incumbent clergy of a parish, so three advowsons meant three incumbents.”