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Meanings of lower clergy in English

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Usage of lower clergy in English
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Comments on the attitude of Church leaders and lower clergy are favourable:
The Grey Book / A collection of protests against anti-semitism a...
2
The patriarch ordains the metropolitans and episcopas and these in turn ordain the lower clergy.
Modern Persia
3
Nothing abashed, Mr. Slope then noticed the precentor and descended to the grade of the lower clergy.
Barchester Towers
4
This preponderance of the lower clergy appears to have been foreseen and desired by the royal advisers.
The Eve of the French Revolution
5
The assembly hoped that the higher clergy from interest, and the lower clergy from ambition, would adopt this measure.
History of the French Revolution from 1789 to 1814
6
Especially amongst the lower clergy, the local peasantry, and some of the more rigorous church orders, like the Dominicans.
The marks of cain
7
A similar and sharper contrast was observable between the higher and lower clergy, in England as well as in Roman Catholic countries.
A Political and Social History of Modern Europe V.1.
8
The change, carried out in this extreme form, threw the whole body of bishops and a great part of the lower clergy into revolt.
A History of Modern Europe, 1792-1878
9
It found its early converts chiefly among the lower clergy and the merchants of the large towns, but for several years it was not numerous.
A Political and Social History of Modern Europe V.1.
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