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What religious officials built schools, hospitals, taught carpentry and weaving to peasants during the Middle Ages?

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Priests and bishops mostly. Regular priests taught people and helped with teaching people in carpentry and weaving, while Bishops who were a higher rank could easily organize a school or a hospital building. The only ones higher ranked were the cardinals and popes who were mostly in Vatican.
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