All gossip about the failures of parochial clergy nourished him in his downtrodden state.

Walker celebrates him as the first of the parochial clergy actually dispossessed by the committee for scandalous ministers.

As bishop he widened his onslaught to the practices of the parochial clergy.

It has a population of 705,000 and comprises 209 benefices, 303 parishes and 335 churches with 145 stipendiary parochial clergy.

And many parochial clergy react by resenting and despising the chapter.

But she was aware that perhaps she underestimated his acceptability to the parochial clergy, who were not threatened by his gentleness.

The parochial clergy of Rome form a special corporation, under a Camerlengo chosen annually by themselves.

An Act of Parliament in 1868, changed the way that parochial clergy were paid, and permitted perpetual curates to be called vicars.

There was a great disparity between the incomes of the parochial clergy.

The parochial clergy had to be married when appointed, but if left widowers were not allowed to marry again; this rule continues to apply today.