Clergy vs Pastor - What's the difference?
clergy | pastor |
Body of persons, such as ministers, sheiks, priests and rabbis, who are trained and ordained for religious service.
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, title= A shepherd; someone who tends to a flock of animals.
Someone with spiritual authority over a group of people
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A Muslim imam
* 1983 , Meridel Rawlings, Fishers and hunters , page 272
* 2005 , Beth Moore, Voices of the Faithful , page 120
A minister or a priest in a Christian church.
(Christianity) To serve a congregation as
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, passage=As they pastored churches in Georgia and Texas, they supported talented black politicians who were unable to win statewide office. }}
As a noun clergy
is body of persons, such as ministers, sheiks, priests and rabbis, who are trained and ordained for religious service.As a proper noun pastor is
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English
Noun
(clergies)The Mirror and the Lamp, passage=Then everybody once more knelt, and soon the blessing was pronounced. The choir and the clergy trooped out slowly, […], down the nave to the western door. […] At a seemingly immense distance the surpliced group stopped to say the last prayer.}}
- Today we brought together clergy from the Wiccan, Christian, New Age and Islamic traditions for an interfaith dialogue.
Derived terms
* clergymanReferences
*pastor
English
Alternative forms
* pastour (obsolete)Noun
(en noun)Derived terms
* pastorage * pastorate * pastoral * pastoressCoordinate terms
* imam, guru, rabbi, sanghaVerb
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