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Example sentences for "secular priests"

  • Besides these, twenty thousand Indians are under the care of secular priests--making a total of two hundred and five thousand.

  • Of these about sixteen thousand are in the care of secular priests; nearly fifty thousand, of the Augustinians; and fifty-four thousand, of the Jesuits.

  • Again in Maryland and Pennsylvania, there were at that time no secular priests; the missionaries were all Jesuits, and it would have been difficult to get any other ecclesiastical attire.

  • The Sulpicians according to their constitution are a community of secular priests bound by no special religious vows.

  • In the other countries many of the Jesuits laboured as secular priests, others of them united in the congregation, known as the Fathers of the Faith (1797), and others still in the congregation of the Fathers of the Sacred Heart.

  • The Paris Oratorians were a community of secular priests bound by no special vows, but living under a common rule with the object of fulfilling as perfectly as possible the obligations they had undertaken at their ordination.

  • College of secular priests in the Church of | Wingham, but, being interrupted by death, his | successor Peckham carried out the design.

  • In the castles of less noble and wealthy persons it is not uncommon to find that there were several chaplains organized into a college of secular priests, as at Colchester, Exeter, Hastings, Pontefract, etc.

  • The chapel of Bridgenorth Castle had a college of secular priests, and in later times served as a parish church to the people of the borough.

  • York, founded the | | College of secular priests in the Church of | Wye, 1447 A.

  • There had existed here previously an alien priory, which was afterwards converted into a college of secular priests.

  • William Courtney, Archbishop of Canterbury, founded in 1396 a college of secular priests on a large scale at Maidstone in Kent.

  • Apparently written by a friar, it gives the reasons why the missions must be administered by the religious orders rather than by secular priests, and why the friars ask that they be not placed under the episcopal authority.

  • To their teaching are indebted the majority of the beneficed clergy, secular priests, in the islands, besides many others who have entered the orders.

  • They almost always avail themselves of those same religious for that, because of the great lack of secular priests.

  • Opposite the said jurisdiction and to the right, lie the islands of Mindoro and Luban, which are in charge of secular priests.

  • I have said that the archbishopric of Manila contains more than two hundred livings, of which only thirteen are in charge of secular priests.


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