The phrase "a visiting cleric" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to refer to a cleric who is temporarily present in a location, often for a specific purpose such as a service, event, or meeting.
Example: "The church welcomed a visiting cleric who shared inspiring messages during the Sunday service."
Alternatives: "a guest cleric" or "an itinerant cleric."
Not forgetting the obligatory awkward Sunday lunch with a visiting cleric of course.
"He said he wanted to visit, not to die there," quipped Sheik Husham Al-Husainy, a visiting cleric from Dearborn.
"The deeper it goes, the more complicated it gets, so Iraqi politicians stay on the surface," said Sheik Husham al-Husainy, a visiting cleric from Dearborn.
Amusing strozzapreti were characteristically a tad heavy (according to one story, strozzapreti, which means priest choker in Italian, was served as a primi to abate the appetite of a visiting cleric before the more expensive, meaty secundo).
Preaching a strict adherence to Shariah, the Islamic legal code based on the Koran, and urging a ban on music, dancing and imitations of Western behavior, a visiting cleric from Najaf, the Iraqi Shiite spiritual and political center 100 miles south of Baghdad, demanded on Friday that the United States leave Iraq.
"Our people were hoping their liberation would start soon, but [the time] is getting longer, and many have left the country," the visiting cleric pointedly added.
The 40-minute poor-quality tape, apparently shot with a camcorder, shows Bin Laden telling a visiting Muslim cleric details of the planning for the attack and his delight in the carnage.
At his party's meeting earlier this week, Mr. Kumar made an indirect jab at Mr. Modi's refusal in 2011 to wear a skull cap offered by a visiting Muslim cleric, which Mr. Modi's critics saw as an insult to Islam.
"It was important that the most senior cleric, politically and religiously, came out and supported the people," said Mohsen Kadivar, a former student of Ayatollah Montazeri who is now a visiting scholar at Duke University in Durham, N.C.
At one point, Khalilzad mentioned having gone into the "Red Zone" to visit a cleric.
Like any good guest, the new British ambassador here brought a present when he visited the cleric who heads Iran's chief foreign policy agency.
