Possible Clues:

• Hardly dignify
• Take down a notch
• Lower
• Disgrace made me a nonentity in some parts
• Cut down to size
• Yours truly is taken in by cleric lower in status
• Lower in reputation or status
• European of average or lower reputation
• Humble space for type given refuge by church dignitary
• It would lower me to have the cleric around if he were so swift