spiritual leader

Noun
  1. A leader in religious or sacred affairs (synset 109528285)
    is a type of: leader - a person who rules or guides or inspires others
    subtypes:
    • cantor, hazan - the official of a synagogue who conducts the liturgical part of the service and sings or chants the prayers intended to be performed as solos
    • catholicos - the ecclesiastical title of the leaders of the Nestorian and Armenian churches
    • clergyman, man of the cloth, reverend - a member of the clergy and a spiritual leader of the Christian Church
    • evangelist - (when capitalized) any of the spiritual leaders who are assumed to be authors of the Gospels in the New Testament: Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John
    • patriarch - title for the heads of the Eastern Orthodox Churches (in Istanbul and Alexandria and Moscow and Jerusalem)
    • bishop of rome, catholic pope, holy father, pontiff, pope, roman catholic pope, vicar of christ - the head of the Roman Catholic Church
    • non-christian priest, priest - a person who performs religious duties and ceremonies in a non-Christian religion
    • rabbi - spiritual leader of a Jewish congregation; qualified to expound and apply Jewish law
    specific instances: gandhi, mahatma gandhi, mohandas karamchand gandhi - political and spiritual leader during India's struggle with Great Britain for home rule; an advocate of passive resistance (1869-1948)

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