clergy
clergies
In the Christian church, the clergy is the entire class of religious officials, from priests to pastors to bishops and beyond. If you have a sense that your life path lies in helping others practice their faith, you should go into the clergy.
Clergy comes from the word clerk, which in turn comes from cleric. If the only clerks you think of are those that work in shoe stores, think of it this way: when you join the ministry of a church, the idea is that you serve the church. Clergy is the word for all of the clerics combined, and is paired with the laity, which are all the people in the church who aren't in the clergy.
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in Christianity, clergymen collectively (as distinguished from the laity)
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Antonyms:
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laity, temporalty
in Christianity, members of a religious community that do not have the priestly responsibilities of ordained clergy
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types:
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pastorate
pastors collectively
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prelacy, prelature
prelates collectively
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cardinalate
cardinals collectively
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type of:
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priesthood
the body of ordained religious practitioners
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laity, temporalty
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