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Since "clergy" covers every level within the Church from doorkeeper to Pope, the answer is not a simple one.

Many of the lowest levels of clergy either lived in their own homes or in Church schools (students were clerks in Minor Orders); priests lived in their own small houses near to their parish church; canons lived in a cathedral or canonry; deans serving on the staff of a bishop or archbishop had their own accommodation within a cathedral precinct; bishops had palaces; monks, novices, priors and abbots lived within a monastic precinct; cardinals and the pope had accommodation at the Vatican in Rome.

Friars would live in a friary complex but work out on the streets; nuns lived in convents.

Some clergy were attached to nobles or to the king and would have apartments within a castle or royal palace.

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