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In 1713 the missions were handed over to the "secularclergy".
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.This is the norm forsecularclergyand members of religious institutes.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.Clergy who are not members of a religious institute are known assecularclergy.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.Thesecularclergyare sometimes referred to as white clergy, black being the customary color worn by monks.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.The abbot was chosen from among thesecularclergy.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.The friars had long honed their polemical skills through rivalry between the orders and with thesecularclergy.
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If monks and nuns are taken together, they roughly equalled in number thesecularclergy.
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The opinions ofsecularclergywho preached to the religious in an attempt to reform monastic life are also considered.
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Very roughly, the regular clergy as a body had as much land and wealth as thesecularclergy.
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In the negotiations between thesecularclergyand the regime starting in the late 1590s there had been proposed several forms of oaths and declarations of loyalty.
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Virtually everywhere this was absolutely true, and often represented as well a relative imbalance in numbers of male regulars as opposed to those of thesecularclergy.
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Bulhoes was especially interested in replacing the regular orders withsecularclergyand thought that ' the most efficient way to eliminate the missions is to found settlements and establish parishes'.
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I do not think that has ever been proved in regard to thesecularclergy.
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He attempts to impose celibacy on thesecularclergywithout noticeable success.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.The archbishops andsecularclergyfound active co-workers among the regular clergy.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.He wished to have their privileges withdrawn in regard to the act of confession, preaching, and other acts as they were undermining hissecularclergy.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.In the women's monasteries also should serve thesecularclergy.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.He received permission to recruit among thesecularclergyto serve there on contracts of five-years duration.
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