Usually means: Priests not bound by monastic vows.
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  1. Secular clergy: Dictionary.com
  2. Secular clergy: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  3. Secular Clergy: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (1898)
  4. secular clergy: FreeDictionary.org

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  1. Secular Clergy, Secular clergy: Catholic Encyclopedia

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▸ noun:  In Christianity, the term secular clergy refers to deacons and priests who are not monastics or otherwise members of religious life.


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