In a few cases, the term is used for other Christian clerical authorities.

The paper claimed that while popular indignation with the conservative clerical authorities was running high, support for Khatami remained solid.

After eating the sweets, teams had to search for seven churches obtaining a seal from a clerical authority.

It was also an attempt by early humanists to challenge clerical authority.

The laity gave way increasingly to the clerical authorities, as in medieval times.

But he also dares to bypass all clerical authority in conveying his thoughts on the divine.

Irenaeus, as bishop, recognized the danger to clerical authority.

The tension between civilian and clerical authority dominated Ecuador's history for much of the 19th and early 20th centuries.

It also maintained the independent jure divino basis of clerical authority in spiritual matters.

It's crazy, he says, to think that you could have an Iraqi constitution in which clerical authorities are not assigned a significant role.