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S: (n) 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)
S: (n) 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)
S: (n) 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))
S: (n) archdeacon ((Anglican Church) an ecclesiastical dignitary usually ranking just below a bishop)
S: (n) chaplain (a clergyman ministering to some institution)
S: (n) doorkeeper, ostiary, ostiarius (the lowest of the minor Holy Orders in the unreformed Western Church but now suppressed by the Roman Catholic Church)
S: (n) lector, reader (someone who reads the lessons in a church service; someone ordained in a minor order of the Roman Catholic Church)
S: (n) officiant (a clergyman who officiates at a religious ceremony or service)
S: (n) priest (a clergyman in Christian churches who has the authority to perform or administer various religious rites; one of the Holy Orders)
S: (n) shepherd (a clergyman who watches over a group of people)
S: (n) 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)
S: (n) vicar ((Church of England) a clergyman appointed to act as priest of a parish)
S: (n) vicar ((Episcopal Church) a clergyman in charge of a chapel)
S: (n) Wesley, Charles Wesley (English clergyman and brother of John Wesley who wrote many hymns (1707-1788))
S: (n) Williams, Roger 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))
S: (n) Holy Order, Order ((usually plural) the status or rank or office of a Christian clergyman in an ecclesiastical hierarchy) "theologians still disagree over whether `bishop' should or should not be a separate Order"
S: (n) 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)
S: (n) 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))
S: (n) deacon (a cleric ranking just below a priest in Christian churches; one of the Holy Orders)
S: (n) doorkeeper, ostiary, ostiarius (the lowest of the minor Holy Orders in the unreformed Western Church but now suppressed by the Roman Catholic Church)
S: (n) exorcist (one of the minor orders in the unreformed Western Church but now suppressed in the Roman Catholic Church)
S: (n) lector, reader (someone who reads the lessons in a church service; someone ordained in a minor order of the Roman Catholic Church)
S: (n) priest (a clergyman in Christian churches who has the authority to perform or administer various religious rites; one of the Holy Orders)
S: (n) 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)