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Secular Clergy

Legal definition for Indian law research

Definition

Secular clergy, parochial clergy who performed their ministry in seculo, and were contradistingui-shed from the regular clergy, who lived in monasteries, by rules (regul').

Clergy who have no particular religious affiliation or do not belong to a particular religious denomina-tion, Black's Law Dictionary, 7th Edn., p. 1356.

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