The vast majority of parish clergy in Greece are married.

In the medieval church, there had been no seminaries or other institutions dedicated to training men as parish clergy.

Only in 1918 new parish clergy arrived to Kėdainiai.

The result was that the number of parish clergy plunged from 60,000 in 1790 to 25,000 in 1815, many of them elderly.

The parish clergy were likewise passive, as a rule.

What most of the parish clergy wanted was internal democracy within the Church, a system of convocation.

A Gothic style three-story house was built in the for the parish clergy to the left of the cathedral.

The parish clergy were hurt by the wave of religious enthusiasm that accompanied the early mendicant movements.

The use of the title "Father" for parish clergy became customary around the 1820s.

Recruitment to the parish clergy fell and monastic houses never recovered.