With some of the higher clergy I had a personal acquaintance, and of the rest in that class a very good means of information.

In Dresden he was accepted by the nobility and high clergy.

This latter faction included many of the higher secular clergy).

But the script portrays the higher clergy as jaded and ultimately irrelevant.

The Enlightenment had spread to the Church in some ways, especially among the higher clergy.

Most were opposed, some strongly so; the bishops and higher clergy hated it.

From 1911 to 1914, the Irish high clergy made successive attacks on the trade union movement and on socialism.

It is important to point out that these expressions which interpret Irish social reality and events are also used by the high clergy.

Therefore, it allowed for the possibility of resistance to the higher clergy.

No exception was made for Poland's higher clergy.