Meanings of constitutional clergy in English

A small number of those appointed to the sixty new dioceses, were taken from the constitutional clergy.

To say truth, it is not very surprizing that numbers should be prejudiced against the constitutional clergy.

Enemies without and within, say the constitutional clergy, wished to create a disgust to liberty, by substituting to it licentiousness.

The constitutional clergy followed a plan more conformable to the gospel, which gained them the affection of the well-disposed part of the nation.

The constitutional clergy continued their labours, struggling incessantly against calumny and libels, either from their dissentient brethren or from the agents of the directorial government.