A person who performs public sacral functions, called by ordination, election or nomination, belonging to the clergy. In Catholic Church, the clergy includes: deacons, priests, bishops and friars.

Every clergyman belongs necessarily to a certain diocese (diocesan priest) or religious order (religious priest), to which he is incardinated by deaconate ordination or by religious order profession.

• Religious association

• Bishop
• Clergy
• Priest