Definition & Betydelse | Engelska ordet CLERGY'S

Definition av CLERGY'S

1. böjningsform av clergy

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• Vincent was zealous in conducting retreats for clergy at a time when the local clergy's morals were flagging.
• Under that pseudonym, Nalbandian composed short stories, published in Hyusisapayl, that portrayed the Armenian clergy's mysticism, deceitfulness, and ignorance.
• Ministers of various other Protestant sects also opposed him on theological grounds, the New Light's jettisoning of an educated and "properly"-ordained ministry, and assuredly the loss of parishioners that eroded both tithing flows and the clergy's status in their community's hierarchy.
• Boniface was critical of the Frankish clergy's crudeness and unlearnedness, which he saw as holdovers from heathen superstition.
• Within the district a series of contributing factors (the immense difficulties in restoring public order; the large number of draft dodgers and deserters who fled to the countryside - particularly to Burgio - to avoid military conscription; the clergy's firm opposition to the laws confiscating property and suppressing religious congregations; hostility toward the "Piedmontese" who had come to Sicily to fill important administrative and political roles) escalated into very strong opposition to the government and the establishment of a pro-Bourbon committee (in Bivona), which was also joined by employees of the local subprefecture.
• The general degradation of religious life was aggravated by the problem of the clergy's profound ignorance and the laxity of their customs: simony and concubinage were quite common, and attempts at reform and moralization, pursued as early as around the year 1000 by some of the more enlightened and committed bishopssuch as Rudolph who tried to reform the clergy by implementing the decisions of the Council of Ravenna ordered by Otto I in 967, Lambert who introduced community life for cathedral priests and Jeromeand then by the papacy and various councils, especially after the , had little success in Vicenza, as generally throughout northern Italy.

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