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In the monastic communities, the lowest grade would be a novice or oblate.
Among lay clergy the lowest grades were students in Church schools, church porters (doorkeepers) and clerks in minor orders; all of these were supposed to have their heads shaved in the Roman tonsure, just like priests, bishops and popes.
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