Do non-spellcasting, non-adventuring priests exist in D&D?

It's on p.21 of Faiths & Avatars.

That's what I *thought* I remembered.

I'm kinda surprised at the insistence that clergy = clerics especially given the praise Faith & Avatars still gets to this day.

F&A, as a 2E product, had the 2E superheading of Priest. - which included, Clerics, Druids, Specialty priests but also Mystics, Crusaders, Monks and Shamans.

The clergy though could be any class. I distinctly remember in my own group that when F&A came out, my friends all became "clergy members" and they weren't members of the priest superclass.

One that I can remember was a dwarven fighter who was a high ranking member in Clangeddin's church.

Where did this idea that 2E said that non-priest class members could not be clergy members come from?

Didn't even "On Hallowed Ground" state the same thing?
 

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