This caused envy amongst the more senior clergymen and brought many charges against him implying that he was not capable of being Catholicos.

The proposal for a Shiite religious militia initially received a tepid response from other, senior clergymen.

The Ealdormen, or executive heads of the shire and the senior clergymen of the state, had seats as well.

It is understood the group decided to go on ceasefire after a plea by a senior clergyman.

Let's be clear, neither of these esteemed senior clergymen were endorsing bullying or suggesting that we should beat up popular novelists.

Additionally, there are a number of itinerant bishops, senior clergymen who do not have a set area or land to oversee.

Newspapers digging into archives of the secret police have followed with reports that other senior clergymen were once collaborators.

Meanwhile, senior clergyman deemed insufficiently subservient have either died under mysterious circumstances or disappeared.

It is the documented irresponsibility of bishops and senior clergymen that turned horrendous crimes into an enormous scandal.

This time he searched the incumbents of Buckinghamshire for any senior clergyman who had died within the last ten years.