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  URI(s)

  • http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85026944
  • info:lc/authorities/sh85026944
  • http://id.loc.gov/authorities/sh85026944#concept

• Instance Of

  • MADS/RDF Topic
  • MADS/RDF Authority
  • SKOS Concept

• Scheme Membership(s)

  • Library of Congress Subject Headings

• Collection Membership(s)

  • LCSH Collection - Authorized Headings
  • LCSH Collection - General Collection
  • LCSH Collection - May Subdivide Geographically

• Variants

  • Clergy--Major orders
  • Clergy members
  • Clergymen
  • Indigenous clergy
  • Major orders
  • Members of the clergy
  • Ministers (Clergy)
  • Ministers of the gospel
  • Native clergy
  • Ordained clergy
  • Ordained ministers
  • Orders, Major
  • Pastors
  • Rectors

• Use For

  • Clergymen
  • Ministers of the gospel
  • Clerics
  • Dignitaries

• Broader Terms

  • Religious leaders

• Narrower Terms

  • Anti-clericalism
  • Archdeacons
  • Associate clergy
  • Bishops
  • Boy bishops
  • Canons, Cathedral, collegiate, etc.
  • Celibacy
  • Chaplains
  • Children of clergy
  • Christian education directors
  • Circuit riders
  • City clergy
  • Clericalism
  • Confessors
  • Confidential communications--Clergy
  • Deacons
  • Deans, Cathedral and collegiate
  • English language--Conversation and phrase books (for clergy, etc.)
  • Ex-clergy
  • Families of clergy
  • Free churches--Clergy
  • Gay clergy
  • Interim clergy
  • Islam--Functionaries
  • Mental health clergy
  • Minor canons, Cathedral, collegiate, etc.
  • New Age ministers
  • Ordination
  • Patronage, Ecclesiastical
  • Priests
  • Privileges and immunities, Ecclesiastical
  • Rabbis
  • Retired clergy
  • Rural chapters
  • Rural clergy
  • Rural deans
  • Shinto priests
  • Spiritual directors
  • Spouses of clergy
  • Tonsure
  • Vicars, Parochial
  • Women clergy

• Exact Matching Concepts from Other Schemes

  • http://stitch.cs.vu.nl/vocabularies/rameau/ark:/12148/cb11931214z

• Closely Matching Concepts from Other Schemes

  • http://d-nb.info/gnd/4137184-7
  • http://d-nb.info/gnd/4189583-6

• Earlier Established Forms

  • Native clergy

• Sources

  • found: The American Heritage dictionary of the English language, 4th ed., via WWW, Nov. 7, 2002 (clergy: The body of people ordained for religious service)
  • found: Random House Web. unabr. dict., c1997 (clergy: the group or body of ordained persons in a religion, as distinguished from the laity; clergyman: 1. a member of the clergy. 2. an ordained Christian minister)

• LC Classification

  • BV659-BV683

• Change Notes

  • 2002-11-07: new
  • 2002-12-23: revised

• Alternate Formats

  • RDF/XML (MADS and SKOS)
  • N-Triples (MADS and SKOS)
  • JSON (MADS/RDF and SKOS/RDF)
  • MADS - RDF/XML
  • MADS - N-Triples
  • MADS/RDF - JSON
  • SKOS - RDF/XML
  • SKOS - N-Triples
  • SKOS - JSON
  • MADS/XML
  • MARC/XML

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