 Clerics also made up a significant part of the population; in 1300, the Bishop of Paris was assisted by 51 "chanoines" (canons), and each of the thirty-three parish churches had its own "curé" (curate), vicar, and chaplains.There were thousands of monks and nuns in the eighty-eight convents and monasteries, numerous beguines and religious orders, and there were about three thousand students who had taken religious orders and were considered clerics.Altogether, there were about 20,000 member of religious orders in the city, or about ten percent of the population, in the year 1300.