clergymen

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He was joined by clergymen including Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew of Constantinople, the most senior bishop in Eastern Orthodoxy.

From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 28, 2025

The building has also sparked concern among senior clergymen involved with the project.

From BBC • Jan. 13, 2025

Normally, avant-garde financial tools might come from, well, the financial avant-garde -- bankers, merchants, and investors hunting for short-term profits, not clergymen.

From Science Daily • Jun. 6, 2024

Safronov was among the clergymen who signed a public letter calling for the remains to be returned to his family.

From Seattle Times • Apr. 24, 2024

High-ranking clergymen experimented with the dangerous ideas of the void and the infinite, even though the ideas struck at the core of the ancient Greek philosophy that the church cherished so much.

From "Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea" by Charles Seife