S: (n) Mandaean, Mandean (a member of a small Gnostic sect that originated in Jordan and survives in Iraq and who believes that John the Baptist was the Messiah)
S: (n) missionary, missioner (someone sent on a mission--especially a religious or charitable mission to a foreign country)
S: (n) Moonie (an often derogatory term for a member of the Unification Church)
S: (n) oblate (a lay person dedicated to religious work or the religious life)
S: (n) Nazarene, Ebionite (a member of a group of Jews who (during the early history of the Christian Church) accepted Jesus as the Messiah; they accepted the Gospel According to Matthew but rejected the Epistles of St. Paul and continued to follow Jewish law and celebrate Jewish holidays; they were later declared heretic by the Church of Rome)
S: (n) novitiate, novice (someone who has entered a religious order but has not taken final vows)
S: (n) pagan (a person who follows a polytheistic or pre-Christian religion (not a Christian or Muslim or Jew))
S: (n) Parsee, Parsi (a member of a monotheistic sect of Zoroastrian origin; descended from the Persians; now found in western India)
S: (n) penitent ((Roman Catholic Church) a person who repents for wrongdoing (a Roman Catholic may be admitted to penance under the direction of a confessor))