clergyman

Noun
  1. A member of the clergy and a spiritual leader of the Christian Church (synset 109946909)
    is a type of: spiritual leader - a leader in religious or sacred affairs
    subtypes:
    • acolyte - someone who assists a priest or minister in a liturgical service; a cleric ordained in the highest of the minor orders in the Roman Catholic Church but not in the Anglican Church or the Eastern Orthodox Churches
    • anagnost - a cleric in the minor orders of the Eastern Orthodox Church who reads the lessons aloud in the liturgy (analogous to the lector in the Roman Catholic Church)
    • archdeacon - (Anglican Church) an ecclesiastical dignitary usually ranking just below a bishop
    • chaplain - a clergyman ministering to some institution
    • churchman, cleric, divine, ecclesiastic - a clergyman or other person in religious orders
    • curate, minister, minister of religion, parson, pastor, rector - a person authorized to conduct religious worship
    • deacon - a cleric ranking just below a priest in Christian churches; one of the Holy Orders
    • domine, dominee, dominie, dominus - a clergyman; especially a settled minister or parson
    • doorkeeper, ostiarius, ostiary - the lowest of the minor Holy Orders in the unreformed Western Church but now suppressed by the Roman Catholic Church
    • lector, reader - someone who reads the lessons in a church service; someone ordained in a minor order of the Roman Catholic Church
    • officiant - a clergyman who officiates at a religious ceremony or service
    • ordinand - a person being ordained
    • ordinary - a clergyman appointed to prepare condemned prisoners for death
    • postulator - (Roman Catholic Church) someone who proposes or pleads for a candidate for beatification or canonization
    • preacher, preacher man, sermoniser, sermonizer - someone whose occupation is preaching the gospel
    • priest - a clergyman in Christian churches who has the authority to perform or administer various religious rites; one of the Holy Orders
    • shepherd - a clergyman who watches over a group of people
    • subdeacon - a clergyman an order below deacon; one of the Holy Orders in the unreformed western Christian church and the eastern Catholic Churches but now suppressed in the Roman Catholic Church
    • vicar - (Church of England) a clergyman appointed to act as priest of a parish
    • vicar - (Episcopal Church) a clergyman in charge of a chapel
    specific instances:
    • beecher, henry ward beecher - United States clergyman who was a leader for the abolition of slavery (1813-1887)
    • donne, john donne - English clergyman and metaphysical poet celebrated as a preacher (1572-1631)
    • john keble, keble - English clergyman who (with John Henry Newman and Edward Pusey) founded the Oxford movement (1792-1866)
    • king, martin luther king, martin luther king jr. - United States charismatic civil rights leader and Baptist minister who campaigned against the segregation of Blacks (1929-1968)
    • john wesley, wesley - English clergyman and founder of Methodism (1703-1791)
    • charles wesley, wesley - English clergyman and brother of John Wesley who wrote many hymns (1707-1788)
    • roger williams, williams - English clergyman and colonist who was expelled from Massachusetts for criticizing Puritanism; he founded Providence in 1636 and obtained a royal charter for Rhode Island in 1663 (1603-1683)
    belongs to: clergy - in Christianity, clergymen collectively (as distinguished from the laity)
    same as: man of the cloth, reverend

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