clergymen

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Ebel and Diestel were provincial clergymen, scarcely known outside their parishes until, as Mr. Clark says, scandal tightened around them.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 27, 2026

The building has also sparked concern among senior clergymen involved with the project.

From BBC • Jan. 13, 2025

With other prominent Black clergymen, he helped to win the release of Nelson Mandela and end apartheid in South Africa.

From Salon • Oct. 13, 2024

Normally, avant-garde financial tools might come from, well, the financial avant-garde -- bankers, merchants, and investors hunting for short-term profits, not clergymen.

From Science Daily • Jun. 6, 2024

Although the bishop was the head of the church in Chutreaux, it was the group of clergymen known as the chapter who controlled the money.

From "Cathedral: The Story of Its Construction" by David Macaulay