In Christianity, a collegiate church is a church where the daily office of worship is maintained by a college of canons, a non-monastic or "secular" community of clergy, organised as a self-governing corporate body, headed by a dignitary bearing a title which may vary, such as dean or provost.
Interior of Collegiate Church of Our Lady of Perpetual Help and Mary Magdalene in Poznań, Poland
The roofs of St. Mary's Collegiate Church in Youghal, Ireland
St Mary's Collegiate Church, Haddington, East Lothian, Scotland, consecrated 1410, now a place of worship for the Church of Scotland
Canon is a Christian title usually used to refer to a member of certain bodies in subject to an ecclesiastical rule.
Four canons with SS Augustine and Jerome by an open grave, with the Visitation. Master of the Spes Nostra [nl] (active c. 1500–1520, Northern Netherlands)
Petrus-Ludovicus Stillemans (1821–1902), brother of Antoon Stillemans and honorary canon of St Bavo's Cathedral, Ghent
Another Flemish canon in official clerical dress of canons
A canon ceremonially receives Cardinal Franc Rodé.