English-Swedish translations for clergy

• prästerskap ett
  I dag kan inga andra religioner än islam starta och driva religiösa samfund, värva anhängare, bilda prästerskap eller ha status som juridisk person.To this day, religions other than Islam cannot open and operate places of worship, proselytise, form a clergy or have a legal personality.
  Men han har också haft ett starkt stöd i katolicismens hierarki och prästerskap, enligt kardinal de Courtrays egen utsago den 5 januari 1990.But it also gained massive support from the Catholic hierarchy and clergy, by admission of Cardinal de Courtray himself, on 5 January 1990.

Definition of clergy

• Body of persons, such as ministers, sheiks, priests and rabbis, who are trained and ordained for religious service

Examples

• Today we brought together clergy from the Wiccan, Christian, New Age and Islamic traditions for an interfaith dialogue.

Related words

• clergyman
• clergywoman
• clergyperson
• the clergy
• regular clergy
• the clergy of a parish