Secular Clergy

Secular Clergy
1) The clergy who were not separated from the world by a written rule or by life in a monastic community; it included the bishops and priests who worked with the laity; often contrasted to the regular clergy who lived under a rule; word derived from saeculum, "world".
(Lynch, Joseph H. The Medieval Church: A Brief History, 365)
2) Any cleric who was not a regular, but lived under no rule and outside communities, in the world or in saeculo. The term applied to nearly all the parish clergy, most collegiate clergy and the canons of the secular cathedrals.
(Heath, Peter. Church and Realm, 1272-1461, 368)

Medieval glossary. 2014.

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