Secular Clergy - Definition - Law Dictionary Home Dictionary Definition secular-clergy

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.