Across
1 Sets up part of Divine Office first thing on Sunday (6)
4 Fellow given to few words shortened biblical sections (8)
9 Host beginning to entertain me outside church (5)
10 Historian going round the ruined OT city (9)
11 String along with one friend in an affable manner (9)
12 Check car, taking little time (5)
13 Calvin is e.g. male spreading a form of Protestant theology (14)
17 Mystic found in market mixing with heretics (7,7)
21 Below, sometimes associated with dig (5)
23 Earlier leader of sect in monastic office (9)
24 Innocent and weak, participating in worship (9)
25 Prosper in good school (3,2)
26 Change one’s mind about American dissenter (8)
27 Mum’s collecting money in church service (6)
Down
1 Comes to after end of sleep and pontificates? (8)
2 In a trance, suffering in body (9)
3 Time of day, say, in which to catch archdeacon at home (7)
5 Birdwatching? Here’s a bird (5)
6 Quiet minister to suffer and win through (7)
7 Hoped to recycle priestly garment (5)
8 Notice restricting national governing assembly (6)
10 Eagle flying around large island lake (7)
14 ‘Revs’? Revolutionary circles (7)
15 Food in poor area in short supply, in a country in short supply (9)
16 Having received hint, transmits allowances to clergy (8)
18 Seaweed impeding ship or ships (7)
19 King with fancy imagery, one out proclaiming the gospel (7)
20 Lithe mountaineer maybe not cold initially (6)
22 Football club has managed to bring in money (5)
23 The old man beginning to engage with a new hymn (5)
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