title: Patronage (disambiguation)
text: # Patronage (disambiguation)
  
  Patronage is the support, encouragement, privilege, or financial aid that an organization or individual bestows to another.
  
  Patronage may also refer to:
  
  * Patronage (transportation) or ridership, a statistical quantity of passengers
  * Patronage (novel), an 1814 novel by Maria Edgeworth
  * Spoils system or patronage system
  * Ius patronatus or right of patronage in Roman Catholic canon law
  * Patronage Rules or Benefices Rules, rules governing the appointment of patrons in the parish system in England
  * Disputes over Patronage (lay) in the Church of Scotland led to it splitting on several occasions.
  