Clergy

All the clergy are against the new law.

Bishops, archbishops and abbots composed the high clergy.

For the first time in the history of the Catholic Church, bishops from around the world have been meeting at the Vatican to confront the issue of the sexual abuse of children by clergy.

An ecumenical council is a general worldwide conference of any church’s clergy and theologians who meet together, with the goal of agreeing on doctrines and practices.

People who work for a given faith are called clergy.

Pope Francis says the Roman Catholic Church should start considering whether to let married men serve as priests in order to address a shortage of clergy, especially in remote areas.

We're clergy.

Tensions grew when the laity questioned the primacy of the clergy in moral decision-making.

Today we brought together clergy from the Anglican, Catholic, Orthodox, and Reformed traditions for ecumenical dialogue.

Then everybody once more knelt, and soon the blessing was pronounced. The choir and the clergy trooped out slowly, […], down the nave to the western door. […] At a seemingly immense distance the surpliced group stopped to say the last prayer.