1) Body of ordained persons 2) Clericals 3) Cloth 4) Feudal term 5) Feudal word 6) First estate 7) First of the three estates 8) Folks in collars 9) French word used in English 10) Group of priests 11) Mass producers 12) Men collectively 13) Ministers 14) Ministry 15) Officials of religions 16) One of the three estates
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1) Cardinalate 2) Ministry 3) Pastorate 4) Prelacy 5) Prelature
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Collective term referring to male persons who administer the rites of the Church through Holy Orders.
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• (n.) The privilege or benefit of clergy. • (n.) The body of men set apart, by due ordination, to the service of God, in the Christian church, in distinction from the laity; in England, usually restricted to the ministers of the Established Church. • (n.) Learning; also, a learned profession.
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a body of ordained ministers in a Christian church. In the Roman Catholic Church and in the Church of England, the term includes the orders of ... [19 related articles]
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Ordained individuals who perform spiritual and/or religious functions.
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Ecclesial body made up of those who received the sacrament of the Order. It is divided into the secular clergy, consisting of those who belong to the diocesan clergy, and regular clergy, formed by the clerics of religious congregations
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Cler'gy noun [ Middle English
clergie ,
clergi ,
clerge , Old French
clergie , French
clergie (fr.
clerc clerc, from Latin
clericus priest) confused with Old French
clergié , French
clergé , from Late Latin
clericatus office o...
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Those people who are appointed to work in the church. The three types of clergy are deacons, priests and bishops.
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A priest or minister in the Christian church.
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Clergy is the body of ecclesiastical persons, in contradistinction to the laity. The Greek word came in to use to indicate that this class waste be considered as the particular inheritance and property of God, or else, which is more probable, because it was customary to select by lot those set apart for special religious functions. At first there w...
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Ordained leaders who carry out religious duties. Roman Catholic, Eastern Orthodox, and Anglican churches tend to emphasize the distinction between the clergy and the laity, although this distinction exists in various other Protestant denominations to a lesser degree (Reid et al. 1990
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n] - clergymen collectively (as distinguished from the laity)
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the members of the baptized who have received the Sacrament of Holy Orders
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noun in Christianity, clergymen collectively (as distinguished from the laity)
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the group or body of ordained persons in a religion, as distinguished from the laity.
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The middle stratum of the estate system of stratification, composed of Roman Catholic priests.
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