Body of persons, such as priests, who are trained and ordained for religious service.

plural of clergy

(UK, law, historical) A legal provision by which clergymen (and, later, anybody who could read) could claim that they were outside the jurisdiction of the secular courts and be tried instead in an ecclesiastical court under canon law.

(historical) In Russia, the regular or monastic clergy, as distinct from the secular or parochial.

An ordained (male) Christian minister, a male member of the clergy.

plural of clergyman

An ordained (female) Christian minister; a female member of the clergy. / A woman belonging to a clergyman's family.

An ordained (male or female) Christian minister, a member of the clergy.

plural of clergywoman

plural of clergyperson