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From the twelfth century, and possibly earlier, the term ‘secular clergy’ was used to denote priests living in the secular (ecclesiastical Latin saecularis) world, as opposed to ‘regular clergy’ who ...

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in The Oxford Dictionary of the Christian Church (3 rev) Length: 73 words
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in The Oxford Dictionary of the Renaissance Length: 75 words
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in The Concise Oxford Dictionary of World Religions (1 rev) Length: 43 words

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