Latter-day Saint bishops do not wear any special clothing or insignia the way clergy in many other churches do, but are expected to dress and groom themselves neatly and conservatively per their local culture, especially when performing official duties.

The Latin clergy returned to Bethlehem the following century, establishing themselves in the monastery adjoining the Basilica of the Nativity.

The constitutional party in the legislature desired toleration of the nonjuring clergy, the repeal of the laws against the relatives of the émigrés, and some merciful discrimination toward the émigrés themselves.

He responded by attempting to punish Innocent personally and to drive a wedge between those English clergy that might support him and those allying themselves firmly with the authorities in Rome.

The clergy had amassed a fortune in land, about one-fifth of all Christendom but at the time, in the 12th and 13th centuries, the Church was following a policy of isolation ; they adopted the rule of celibacy and cut themselves from domestic life ; they refused to plead in a secular court ; they refused to pay taxes to the State on the grounds that they had already paid it to the Pope.

Dividing themselves from all Christians in the Church of England, the Dissenters established their own separatist congregations in the 1660s and 1670s ; an estimated 1, 800 of the ejected clergy continued in some fashion as ministers of religion ( according to Richard Baxter ).

Convinced that nothing could meet the challenges facing the Church except imperial intervention, a number of influential clergy and laity separated themselves from communion with Gregory VI or either of his two rivals and implored Emperor Henry III to cross the Alps and restore order.

The council also mandated a strict lifestyle for clergy, banning their participation in judicial procedures involving extremely painful punishments by which the accused would either atone for their sins or prove themselves innocent of often frivolous charges.

In the late 19th century the clergy had shown themselves to be a powerful political force in Iran initiating the Tobacco Protests against a concession to a foreign ( British ) interest.

The great mass of the population need only concern themselves with the precepts ; the counsels must be followed by only a pious few such as the clergy and monks.

The only reason they do not murder themselves to extinction is by the will of Lolth, working primarily through her clergy.

All these bishops felt themselves obliged to him, and many of the highest clergy had been and considered themselves as his servants.

After his death the majority of the diocesan clergy continued to claim the right to elect the bishops for themselves.

Doctors of theology, masters and representatives of chapters, monks and clerks of inferior orders constantly outnumbered the prelates in it, and the influence of the superior clergy had less weight because, instead of being separated into " nations ", as at Constance, the fathers divided themselves according to their tastes or aptitudes into four large committees or " deputations " ( deputationes ).

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He also sponsored a series of conferences between the Lutheran and Reformed clergy in the hopes of having them arrive at some consensus, but the result was the opposite: the more the two sides argued the further apart they found themselves.

Since the edict disallowed the Formula of Concord, one of the Lutheran Confessions as contained in the Book of Concord, many Lutheran clergy could not bring themselves to comply with the edict.

After the Nazi Vidkun Quisling was made dictatorial head of state by the German occupiers during World War II, and introduced a number of controversial measures such as state-controlled education, the Church's bishops and the vast majority of the clergy disassociated themselves from the government in the Foundations of the Church ( Kirkens Grunn ) declaration of Easter 1942, stating that they would only function as pastors for their congregations, not as civil servants.

Richard's early education was poor, being mainly in the hands of the local clergy, themselves virtually illiterate.

While many clergy proclaimed themselves pacifists because of their World War I experiences, Niebuhr declared a victory by Germany and Japan would threaten Christianity.

Moreover, the Jacobitism of the non-jurors provoked a state policy of repression in 1715 and 1745, and fostered the growth of new Hanoverian congregations, using the English Prayer Book, ( served by clergy who had been ordained by a bishop but amenable to none ) who qualified themselves under the Act of 1712.

A large number of the bishops of the East persevered in the refusal, and suffered a cruel persecution ; while even the inferior clergy and laity were compelled to keep themselves in concealment, or to fly the country.

In 2003 two bishops and a few clergy left the FCE, because of their objection to the FCE's increasing openness to engagement with other denominations, and came together as a small group of congregations calling themselves the Evangelical Connexion of the Free Church of England.

Nor must it be wonder'd at, if in so pleasant, so rich, and so agreeable a part of the country, all the rest being so differing from it, the clergy should seat themselves in a proportion'd number, seeing we must do them the justice to say, that if there is any place richer and more fruitful, and pleasant than another, they seldom fail to find it out.

If the clergy relies on papal pronouncements, it must be subjected to obedience to the king.

In the name of the king, who now appointed him lord lieutenant and captain-general of Scotland, he summoned a parliament to meet at Glasgow on 20 October, in which he no doubt hoped to reconcile loyal obedience to the king with the establishment of a non-political Presbyterian clergy.

At the same time the clergy of France, disgusted with Benedict XIII, withdrew from his obedience.

In 1684 he published The Case of Resistance of the Supreme Powers stated and resolved according to the Doctrine of the Holy Scriptures, a treatise in which he drew the distinction between active and passive obedience ( which was at that time generally accepted by the high church clergy ).

The Master of the Order thus offered an opportunity to lay people and secular clergy, who had been independent until then, to adopt a rule of life and to be placed under the jurisdiction of the Dominican Order, by making a promise of obedience to the Master General of the Order.

It is not, therefore, an Institute of Consecrated Life, and members take no religious vows, but are instead bound by the same general laws of celibacy and obedience as diocesan clergy and, in addition, swear an oath as members of the Society.

Even the clergy of the city, such as Semnan's Imam of Friday Prayers, Hujjat al-Islam Sayyid Muhammad Shahchraghi, focus their sermons on the importance of maintaining obedience and spiritual ties with the Supreme Leader.

The system of annates was at no time worked with absolute uniformity and completeness throughout the various parts of the church owning obedience to the Holy See, and it was never willingly submitted to by the clergy.

Some Eastern Orthodox Churches have issued statements to the effect that Anglican orders could be accepted, yet have still reordained former Anglican clergy ; other Orthodox churches have rejected Anglican orders altogether.

The Holy See accepts as valid the ordinations of the Old Catholics in communion with Utrecht, as well as the Polish National Catholic Church ( which received its orders directly from Utrecht, and was — until recently — part of that communion ); but Roman Catholicism does not recognise the orders of any group whose teaching is at variance with what they consider the core tenets of Christianity ; this is the case even though the clergy of the Independent Catholic groups may use the proper ordination ritual.

There are also other reasons why the Holy See does not recognise the validity of the orders of the Independent clergy:

Whilst members of the Independent Catholic movement take seriously the issue of valid orders, it is highly significant that the relevant Vatican Congregations tend not to respond to petitions from Independent Catholic bishops and clergy who seek to be received into communion with the Holy See, hoping to continue in some sacramental role.

Troisordres-A symbolic image of three orders of caste hierarchy in late 18th century: The rural third estate carrying the clergy and the nobility.

Dominic saw the need for a new type of organization to address the needs of his time, one that would bring the dedication and systematic education of the older monastic orders to bear on the religious problems of the burgeoning population of cities, but with more organizational flexibility than either monastic orders or the secular clergy

Dominic sought to establish a new kind of order, one that would bring the dedication and systematic education of the older monastic orders like the Benedictines to bear on the religious problems of the burgeoning population of cities, but with more organizational flexibility than either monastic orders or the secular clergy.

Individuals were chosen from different orders and secular clergy, but primarily they came from the Dominican Order.

Whilst Anglican priests who are members of religious orders must remain celibate ( although there are exceptions, such as priests in the Anglican Order of Cistercians ), the secular clergy – ( bishops, priests, and deacons who are not members of religious orders ) – are permitted to marry before or after ordination.

An assistant priest is a priest in the Anglican and Episcopal churches who is not the senior member of clergy of the parish to which they are appointed, but is nonetheless in priests ' orders ; there is no difference in function or theology, merely in ' grade ' or ' rank '.

The reforming movement within the church, which advocated greater autonomy from royal authority for the clergy, had continued to grow, while new voices such as the Cistercians had gained additional prestige within the monastic orders, eclipsing older orders such as the Cluniacs.

" He was preparing a bull that would excommunicate the King of France and put the interdict over France, and to depose the entire clergy of France, when in September 1303, William Nogaret, the strongest critic of the Papacy in the French inner circle, led a delegation to Rome, with intentionally loose orders by the king to bring the pope, if necessary by force, before a council to rule on the charges brought against him.

The use of the word " cleric " is also appropriate for Eastern Orthodox minor clergy who are tonsured in order not to trivialise orders such as those of Reader in the Eastern Church, or for those who are tonsured yet have no minor or major orders.

In Anglicanism clergy consist of the orders of deacons, priests ( presbyters ) and bishops in ascending order of seniority.

This general observation recurs also in the biography of Pope Hormisdas ; it has no historical value, and according to Duchesne, the writer probably referred to the lower orders of the clergy.

By the Submission of the Clergy, the English clergy and religious orders subscribed to the proposition that the King was, and had always been, the Supreme Head of the Church in England.

The Methodist Church of Great Britain, and its ancestors, have established a number of orders of Deaconesses, who are ordained as both regular and secular clergy.

While Jehovah's Witnesses do not consider members of their religious orders to be a clergy separate from other Witnesses, who are also ordained ministers, but they recognize that a government may consider them such for administrative purposes.