Kleri

Wakleri watatu:askofu mkuuCarey waKanisaAnglikana,RabbiSacks wa Umoja waMasinagogiyaJumuiya ya Madola,muftimkuu Ceric waBosnia,wakiwa pamoja na J. Wallis,mhaririwagazetilaKiinjili"Sojournes",Marekani.

Daraja takatifutatu zaKanisalaKiorthodoksizinavyojitokeza katikaliturujia ya Kimungu:askofu(kulia, kwenyealtare,nyuma yaukuta wa picha),padri(kushoto), na mashemasiwawili (waliovaa rangi yadhahabu).

Wakleri Waorthodoksi waEthiopiawakiongozamaandamanoya Mt.Mikaeli Malaika Mkuu.

Klerini kundi lawatuwanaoongozadinifulani.Jinalinatokana nanenolaKigiriki"κλῆρος" -klēros,"bahati", "sudi" au also "urithi".

Katikamadhehebumengi yaUkristokleri inadaraja takatifutatu:kuanzia juu niuaskofu,upadrinaushemasi.Hata hivyo baadhi yao wanapewa pia majina mengine kulingana nahudumazao, kwa mfano:Papa,kardinali,monsinyori,abati,kanoni,arkimandritan.k.

KatikaUislamuhakunaukuhani,hivyo uongozi unategemea tuelimuya dini: kunamufti,imamu,ustadhin.k.

Marejeo

• Aston, Nigel.Religion and revolution in France, 1780-1804(CUA Press, 2000)
• Bremer, Francis J.Shaping New Englands: Puritan Clergymen in Seventeenth-Century England and New England(Twayne, 1994)
• Dutt, Sukumar.Buddhist monks and monasteries of India(London: G. Allen and Unwin, 1962)
• Farriss, Nancy Marguerite.Crown and clergy in colonial Mexico, 1759-1821: The crisis of ecclesiastical privilege(Burns & Oates, 1968)
• Ferguson, Everett.The Early Church at Work and Worship: Volume 1: Ministry, Ordination, Covenant, and Canon(Casemate Publishers, 2014)
• Freeze, Gregory L.The Parish Clergy in Nineteenth-Century Russia: Crisis, Reform, Counter-Reform(Princeton University Press, 1983)
• Haig, Alan.The Victorian Clergy(Routledge, 1984), in England
• Holifield, E. Brooks.God's ambassadors: a history of the Christian clergy in America(Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing, 2007), a standard scholarly history
• Lewis, Bonnie Sue.Creating Christian Indians: Native Clergy in the Presbyterian Church(University of Oklahoma Press, 2003)
• Marshall, Peter.The Catholic Priesthood and the English Reformation(Clarendon Press, 1994)
• Osborne, Kenan B.Priesthood: A history of ordained ministry in the Roman Catholic Church(Paulist Press, 1989), a standard scholarly history
• Parry, Ken, ed.The Blackwell Companion to Eastern Christianity(John Wiley & Sons, 2010)
• Sanneh, Lamin. "The origins of clericalism in West African Islam."The Journal of African History17.01 (1976): 49-72.
• Schwarzfuchs, Simon.A concise history of the rabbinate(Blackwell, 1993), a standard scholarly history
• Zucker, David J.American rabbis: Facts and fiction(Jason Aronson, 1998)

Viungo vya nje

• Wlsessays.net,Scholarly articles on Christian Clergy from the Wisconsin Lutheran Seminary Library
• University of the WestArchived20 Julai 2011 at theWayback Machine., Buddhist M.Div.
• Naropa UniversityArchived8 Februari 2007 at theWayback Machine., Buddhist M.Div.

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