Sentence examples for clerical orders from inspiring English sources

They generally operate outside the authority or oversight of the official church, often maintaining their own chapels, schools, seminaries and clerical orders.

edit: part of my second question was already answered (do you have clerical orders or a spiritual hierarchy?).

As perhaps as many as a fifth of the population of England may have been in some form of clerical orders, including the minor ones, allowing this would have diminished the king's authority.

It is clear that mendicants and physicians, many of the latter being in clerical orders, had no inhibitions in prescribing childbirth rituals and may have been actively involved in the performance of such rituals.

Before 1959 it was estimated that about one-quarter of the population belonged to the clerical order.

As befits a medieval guild or clerical order, the successor to Supachai Panitchpakdi, whose term expires at the end of August, will emerge only slowly, after several months of courting members and building coalitions.

Since there is no evidence that he belonged to the clerical order, it is difficult to picture his professional life as a theologian.

The issue now is about the core principal of the Islamic Revolution--velayat-e faqih--that Islamic law requires that power over civil society must lie with the clerical order of Islamic jurists.

While Khomeini won the day and dominated the revolution against the Shah of Iran, velayat-e faqih has never been accepted across the senior Shia clerical order as settled law.

When they were defeated, and the monarchical-clerical order was restored, most fled to London, trusting to our country's sympathy with freedom.

The Reformers based their teaching on the free-flowing sense of authority that existed between Christ and his Apostles, who were pictured in the Gospels as unencumbered by an elaborate clerical church order.