It's just Catholic, not Roman Catholic. Roman is an epithet first commonly used in England after the protestant revolt to describe the Catholic Church. It is never used by the official Catholic Church.
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The clergy comprised the First Estate in France before the revolution and the Lords Spiritual in England.
The First Estate of the French social order was comprised of priests of the Roman Catholic Church.
Yes, the Catholic clergy.
The Catholic Clergy
Catholic priests. The "first estate" under the French pre-revolutionary Ancien Régime was the clergy.
Three. The First Estate consisted of members of the Catholic Churh. The Clergy. The Second Estate consisted of Noblemen. The Third Estate consisted of peasents.
The First Estate consisted of the Catholic Clergy.
The Catholic Clergy.
The Catholic Clergy.
The three Estates were the First Estate which included the Catholic Clergy, the Second Estate which consisted of the French Nobles and the Third Estate which was the commoners who represented 95 to 97% of the population.
The Catholic clergy were the First Estate.
The first estate of the Estate General represented the Clergy (which is the generic term used to describe the formal religious leadership within a given religion). The second estate represented the Nobility and the third the Commoners.How many members they had remains unknown.
The first estate was of the clergy. The second was of the nobility, and the third was everyone else: peasants, merchants, lawyers, industrial workers, artisans,