Clergy
- Thomas Jones (bishop) (c. 1550–1619), archbishop of Dublin
- Thomas Jones (priest) (died 1682), Anglican clergyman
- Thomas Jones of Denbigh (1756–1820), minister and author
- Thomas Sherwood Jones (1872–1972), suffragan bishop of Hulme, 1930–1945
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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)
“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)
“...I do deeply deplore, of the sake of the cause, the prevalent notion, that the clergy must be had, either by persuasion or by bribery. They will not need persuasion or bribery, if their hearts are with us; if they are not, we are better without them. It is idle to suppose that the kingdom of heaven cannot come on earth, without their cooperation.”
—Sarah M. Grimke (1792–1873)