Possible Clues:

• Like some robes
• May rely for tips for the Church
• Like Mass officiators
• Sounds as if it's a higher attic for a novelist, by the sound of it
• Ecclesiastical author heard but not seen
• A 7 down sort of author, by the sound of it
• One pokes around to start with, in the manner of the church
• One who found oxygen in speech of minister
• It sounds like an author or like a vicar maybe
• Divinity class established in work of such character?