church leaders
Ecclesiastical governing figures
Church leaders are those who hold authority or responsibility within a religious congregation or denomination—pastors, priests, ministers, bishops, elders, deacons.
The term covers both clergy with formal ordination and laypeople in leadership roles.
The church leaders met to discuss the budget.
In news coverage, church leaders often refers to denominational officials speaking on social issues.
- preacherReligious sermon deliverer
- abbessFemale monastic leader
- parish priestLocal church leader
- theologianExpert in religious doctrine
- abbotMonastery's chief cleric
bishop · high priest · evangelist · catechist · cardinal · patriarch · reformer · exegete · mystic · liturgist · curate · senior pastor · youth pastor · spiritual director · pope · apologist · deacon · lay minister
- clergypriest, bishop, pope, nun, monk
- Christian ScienceEddy, Concord, animal magnetism, board of directors, Glover
- Communist PolandCommunist era, People's Republic, Solidarity, Walesa, state surveillance
- Medieval RomaniaMoldavia, Transylvania, boyar, boyars, principalities
- historical figureshistorical figures, Abraham Lincoln, Albert Einstein, Joan of Arc, Alexander the Great
- Biblical FiguresJesus, Adam, Eve, Moses, Noah
church leaderscongregation
Assembled group of worshippers
laity · laypeople · parishioners · flock · congregants
church leadersgovernment officials
State-employed administrators
political leaders · state leaders · civic leaders · state officials · politicians
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