"clergy" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- The vast majority of parish clergy in Greece are married.
- In the medieval church, there had been no seminaries or other institutions dedicated to training men as parish clergy.
- Only in 1918 new parish clergy arrived to Kėdainiai.
- The result was that the number of parish clergy plunged from 60,000 in 1790 to 25,000 in 1815, many of them elderly.
- The parish clergy were likewise passive, as a rule.
- What most of the parish clergy wanted was internal democracy within the Church, a system of convocation.
- A Gothic style three-story house was built in the for the parish clergy to the left of the cathedral.
- The parish clergy were hurt by the wave of religious enthusiasm that accompanied the early mendicant movements.
- The use of the title "Father" for parish clergy became customary around the 1820s.
- Recruitment to the parish clergy fell and monastic houses never recovered.
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