Clergy
- Pope Adrian IV (c. 1100 – 1159), only English Pope
- Thomas Arundel (1353–1414), Archbishop of Canterbury
- Richard Bancroft (1544–1610), Archbishop of Canterbury
- Richard Barnes (1532–1587), bishop
- Archbishop Lawrence Booth, of York (1420–1480)
- William Charles Cotton (1813–79), missionary and beekeeper
- Thomas Cranmer (1489–1556), Archbishop of Canterbury
- Gildas (c. 510 – c. 570), monk
- Trevor Huddleston (1913–1998), anti-Apartheid activist
- John Leland (1691–1766), English Presbyterian minister
- John Henry Newman (1801–1890), Catholic cardinal
- Plegmund (died 923), Archbishop of Canterbury
- William Smyth (c. 1460 – 1514), bishop
- Charles Spurgeon (1834–1892), Particular Baptist Minister
- Simon Sudbury (died 1381), Archbishop of Canterbury
- Joshua Toulmin (1740–1815), radical Dissenting minister
- John Wesley (1703–1791), Methodist Minister and Evangelist
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Famous quotes containing the word clergy:
“I never saw, heard, nor read, that the clergy were beloved in any nation where Christianity was the religion of the country. Nothing can render them popular, but some degree of persecution.”
—Jonathan Swift (1667–1745)
“Burn Ovid with the rest. Lovers will find
A hedge-school for themselves and learn by heart
All that the clergy banish from the mind,”
—Austin Clarke (1896–1974)
“To impose celibacy on such a large body as the clergy of the Catholic Church is not to forbid it to have wives but to order it to be content with the wives of others.”
—Jean-Jacques Rousseau (1712–1778)