Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 19, Number 93, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 July 1898 — Raśian Clergy. [ARTICLE]

Raśian Clergy.

The clergy of Russia are divided into two classes—the white, or village, clergy. who must all be married, and the black clergy, or monks, who are vowed to celibacjf. The higher dignitaries of the church are invariably chosen from this last class. The great majority of them have no particular duties to perform, and a movement ii on foot for utilizing them us assistant* to parish priests in villages.—Chicago Times-Herald.