Clerus (Graece κλῆρος 'sors, pars hereditatis') est universitas hominum qui ad ordinem sacerdotalem pertinent (clerici). Verbum e Medio Aevo forma clericia in usu erat. Vox praecipue ad sacerdotium Christianum revocatur; interdum autem etiam ad alias religiones earumque cultus ministros transfertur. Cleri Buddhismi saepe communiter collective revocantur sangha pristineque conditi sunt a Butta. Islam cleros non habet sensu sacerdote.

Duces religiosi Foro Oeconomico Mundi anno 2009 adsunt.
Cleri in Universitate Internationali Mustafa, Qom in urbe Iranica sita.

Nexus interni

Bibliographia

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  • Aston, Nigel. 2000.. Religion and revolution in France, 1780-1804. Catholic University of America Press.
  • Bremer, Francis J. 1994. Shaping New Englands: Puritan Clergymen in Seventeenth-Century England and New England, Twayne.
  • Dutt, Sukumar. 1962. Buddhist monks and monasteries of India. Londinii: G. Allen and Unwin.
  • Farriss, Nancy Marguerite. 1968. Crown and clergy in colonial Mexico, 1759-1821: The crisis of ecclesiastical privilege. Burns & Oates.
  • Ferguson, Everett. 2014. The Early Church at Work and Worship: Volume 1: Ministry, Ordination, Covenant, and Canon. Casemate Publishers.
  • Freeze, Gregory L. 1983. The Parish Clergy in Nineteenth-Century Russia: Crisis, Reform, Counter-Reform. Princeton University Press.
  • Haig, Alan. 1984. The Victorian Clergy. Routledge.
  • Holifield, E. Brooks. 2007. God's ambassadors: a history of the Christian clergy in America. Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing.
  • Lewis, Bonnie Sue. 2003. Creating Christian Indians: Native Clergy in the Presbyterian Church. Normanniae: University of Oklahoma Press.
  • Marshall, Peter. 1994. The Catholic Priesthood and the English Reformation. Oxoniae: Clarendon Press.
  • Osborne, Kenan B. 1989. Priesthood: A history of ordained ministry in the Roman Catholic Church. Paulist Press.
  • Parry, Ken, ed. 2010. The Blackwell Companion to Eastern Christianity. Novi Eboraci: John Wiley & Sons.
  • Sanneh, Lamin. 1976. "The origins of clericalism in West African Islam." The Journal of African History 17 (1): 49-72.
  • Schwarzfuchs, Simon. 1993. A concise history of the rabbinate. Pxoniae" Blackwell.
  • Zucker, David J. 1998. American rabbis: Facts and fiction. Jason Aronson.

Nexus externi

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  Vide Clerus in Victionario.