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Перевод: clergy

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духовенство; клир ; священники

Тезаурус:

1. Thus jurisdiction was infinitely fragmented; and the confusion was increased by the growing influence and power of the Church courts, which dealt with a large variety of cases, from disputes about marriages to cases involving the clergy's faith and morals.
2. But the garments modern Christians think of as Western ecclesiastical vestments developed from the "Sunday best" of late Roman aristocrats, which the clergy (always the guardians of the old tradition) continued to wear after their barbarian congregations had put on trousers or Lederhosen.
3. Reformed universities produced able clergy whom the school could attract to their staffs; and the Victorian parent still wanted to feel that the principal educator of his child was in some way a man of God.
4. The new clergy houses were of a quite different, selfless and holy Gothic architecture.
5. However, they all sit together in the same circular chamber which has various doors marked "Clergy Ayes" or "Laity Noes" through which the members of the Synod troop to vote in the way MPs trudge through their voting lobbies.
6. The church, however, seems to be out of step for, having opposed change for so long by supporting the status quo, it is now demonstrating an element of true radicalism since a minority of its clergy wish to take change beyond capitalism towards socialism.
7. As seen in Chapter 3, this was also true in the nineteenth century, despite lower clergy support particularly for the Fenian movement.
8. The authority of the clergy had been second to none during the years of persecution and this appears to have strengthened as a direct result of Roman centralization from the 1850s onwards.
9. When asked if they would like subventions from the state to aid their stipends and church buildings, a move which was being seriously considered by the British government at the time, priests and bishops were united in rejecting the idea on the grounds that it would drive a wedge between clergy and people, identifying clergy with the principal enemies of the people.
10. In residents' association meetings, the clergy's point of view received vocal support from one or two members of the older village community which preceded the housing estate.
11. They are organizationally secular schools, though some clergy are members of the local governing committees and this has always been a feature.
12. The other was the notorious Act of Uniformity, which required clergy to subscribe, amongst other things to a new prayer book which the bishops had deliberately made offensive to the Puritans.
13. The clergy's travelling expenses are chargeable as extras.