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unusual facts about clerics



Abbo Cernuus

Abbo also left some sermons for the instructions of clerics in Paris and Poitiers (Patrologia Latina, CXXII).

Abdulrazak Eid

From 1999 to 2010 he worked on critiquing the Islamic mentality and wrote two books under the title The Custodians of the Delusion Temples / Critic of the doctrinal mentality, in which he discussed and critiqued the work of two of the most influential Islamic clerics, Muhammad Sa'id Ramadan al-Buti and Yusuf al-Qaradawi.

Abraham of Strathearn

Clancy, Thomas Owen, "Scotland, the ‘Nennian’ Recension of the Historia Brittonum, and the Lebor Bretnach", in Simon Taylor (ed.), Kings, Clerics and Chronicles in Scotland, 500–1297, (Portland, 2000), pp.

Act Concerning Peter's Pence and Dispensations

It was not the largest payment to Rome but it is argued by Stanford Lehmberg that it was deliberately mentioned in the Act because it was theoretically paid by laymen and thus might have seemed more intolerable than payments affecting clerics only.

Ali Al-Biladi

He is very well known for his book Anwarul Badrayn (The Lights of the Two Moons) which it contains biographies of many Shia clerics who were in Qatif, Ahsa and Bahrain.

Bartolomeu Anania

While he supported the neutrality of the Church in politics, in 2007 he did join seven other high-ranking Orthodox clerics in signing an appeal against the decision of the parliament to begin impeachment proceedings against President Traian Băsescu, calling the procedure "immoral politics".

Bernard Yago

He then served as a professor at the Minor Seminary of Bingerville and as director of the Pre-Seminary École de Petit Clerics until 1956, whence he began pastoral work in Abidjan until 1957.

Bulgarians in Germany

In the 16th century, Bulgarian Orthodox clerics were known to have been in contact with the German Lutherans and by the 18th century Bulgarian merchants in Leipzig were distinguished from other Balkan Christian merchants.

Clericalism in Iran

Many clerics have been involved in high profile economic activities, most notably Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani, Abbas Vaez-Tabasi and Nasser Makarem Shirazi.

CRSP

Barnabites, or Clerics Regular of Saint Paul, a Catholic religious order

Dr Charles James Fox

The late Dr. Fox not only gave his professional services gratuitously to every priest, but in former years, was in the habit of receiving into his house those clerics who did not reside in the metropolis and more especially the students of St. Edmund's College.

Dubthaigh

The name means either "Dark Man" or "the one from the dark House", and embraces many of the famous clerics linked to Cong, many of them called Saint Dubtach.

ECFR

European Council for Fatwa and Research, a private foundation composed of Islamic clerics and scholars.

Edwin Kagin

His ancestry is German Calvinist on his father's side and Scottish Calvinist Presbyterian on his mother's—both sides boasting numerous clerics.

Eric James

He was Chaplain of Trinity College, Cambridge from 1955-9, and thereby became associated with some of the best known clerics of his generation: Mervyn Stockwood, John Robinson (author of the bestseller Honest to God), Robert Runcie and Trevor Huddleston.

Gaetano da Thiene

Saint Cajetan (1480–1547), Catholic saint and the founder of the order of the Clerics Regular, better known as the Theatines

George Metochites

He first appears in George Pachymeres' History in the year 1273 as one of a small group of clerics who backed the Emperor Michael VIII Palaiologos's negotiations for ecclesial union with Rome.

Herbard VIII von Auersperg

As a renowned pillar of Protestantism Herbard von Auersperg thus opposed strongly the counter-reformatory measures of the Inner-Austrian Court in Graz and resisted the Catholic clerics in Carniola, who were mostly strangers to the land.

History of Porto

Between 1732 and 1763, Italian architect Nicolau Nasoni designed a baroque church with a tower that would become its icon: the Torre dos Clérigos (English: Clerics Tower).

Human rights in Sudan

Pax Romana statement of Macram Max Gassis, Bishop of El Obeid, to the Fiftieth Session of the UN Commission on Human Rights, Geneva, February 1994 accounts of widespread destrucution of hundreds of churches, forced conversions of Christians to Islam, concentration camps, genocide of the Nuba people, systematic rape of women, enslavement of children, torture of priests and clerics, burning alive of pastors and catechists, crucifixion and mutilation of priests.

Javanese name

After the advent of Islam, many Javanese used Arabic names, especially among clerics and the northern coast population, where Islamic influence is strong.

Juana de la Cruz Vázquez Gutiérrez

As Abbess and Pastor she mentored and spiritually directed Cardinal Cisneros, Emperor Carlos V, Juan I of Austria, Gonzalo Fernández de Córdoba well as many noble men and women, clerics, religious and lay people.

Khoeini

Mohammad Mousavi Khoeiniha, Iranian cleric and secretary general of the reformist Association of Combatant Clerics

Muslim Canadian Congress

Earlier that year, the MCC came out against a proposal by John Tory and the Ontario Progressive Conservative Party to publicly fund faith-based schools accusing the Tories of "pandering to clerics".

Pope Agapetus II

Hoping to rejuvenate the religious life of the clerics in Italy, Agapetus, with the blessing of the Princeps Alberic, asked for the abbot of Gorze Abbey to send some of his monks down and join the monastic community attached to the church of Saint Paul Outside the Walls.

Primicerius

In the regulation of the common life of the clergy in collegiate and cathedral churches, according to the Rule of Chrodegang and the statutes of Amalarius of Metz, the primicerius appears as the first capitular after the archdeacon and archpresbyter, controlling the lower clerics and directing the liturgical functions and chant.

Riaz Ahmed Gohar Shahi

He is seen here speaking to two religious clerics from different sects within Islam: Shia Islam and Sunni Islam.

Santiago Manuel de Alday y Aspée

He also condemned the game known as palín or chueca, a form of field hockey of Mapuche origin, as well as the thick winter clothes worn by some clerics during cold weather, and the use of the sacramental bread by some people as a sealing wax on letters.

Sheikh Jafar Shooshtari

On the way, he stopped at Ray, where many scholars and clerics on the order of Naser al-Din Shah Qajar visited him and asked him to stay in Tehran.

Television in Saudi Arabia

For many years, Wahhabi clerics opposed the establishment of a national television service, as they believed it immoral to produce images of humans.

Thaddeus McCarthy

The same year (1896) clerics in Ivrea agreed to donate major relics of Blessed Thaddeus to the dioceses of Cork & Ross and Cloyne.

Thaer Al-Darraji

As well as his personal phone conversations with clerics as well as with political personalities (such as Mohammed Hayef AlـMutairi), and some actors (such as the Egyptian actress Hala Sarhan), and he has been recording his calls, and then upload it on YouTube.

Torquatus of Acci

He is one of the group of Seven Apostolic Men (siete varones apostólicos), seven Christian clerics ordained in Rome by Saints Peter and Paul and sent to evangelize Spain.

Tygodnik Powszechny

Columnists have included prominent clerics, such as Karol Wojtyła (who became Pope John Paul II), academics and poets, journalists and other writers, including Władysław Bartoszewski, Jerzy Zawieyski, Jacek Woźniakowski, Stefan Wilkanowicz, Adam Szostkiewicz, Leszek Kołakowski, Stanisław Lem, Zbigniew Herbert, Tadeusz Kudliński, and Czesław Zgorzelski.

Vayqan-e Maqadas

An established family of clerics and a family of pious Sayyids were living in the village; a feature quiet unique for the region and sufficient to provide the village with the epithet Moqadas (meaning holy).

Wit z Chotela

He was born in Chotel Czerwony, Poland to the Janina noble family and like most senior clerics of his day he was younger son of a local baron, his brother Dzierżko inheriting the family estates.

Zsolt Semjén

He and his wife represented the Hungarian government at the interment of the heart of former Hungarian Crown Prince Otto in Pannonhalma Archabbey, as the only persons present who were not Habsburg family members or clerics.


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