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299 for the First Estate, 278 for the Second Estate and 609 for the Third Estate. The First Estate represented 115,000 to 150,000 Catholic clergy less than 1 per cent of the population. Three-fourths of the delegates from the First Estate were ordinary parish priests. The remaining First Estate deputies held a variety of clerical positions. Of these, 46 were prelates, including 34 bishops, 10 archbishops and two episcopal coadjutors. The 27 other members of the upper clergy were closely associated with the episcopal contingent and included vicars-general,

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