Meaning | (usually plural) the status or rank or office of a Christian clergyman in an ecclesiastical hierarchy. |
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Synonym | Order |
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Narrower | acolyte | someone who assists a priest / priest or minister in a liturgical service |
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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) |
deacon | A cleric ranking just below a priest in Christian churches |
doorkeeper, ostiary, ostiarius | The lowest of the minor Holy Orders in the unreformed Western Church but now suppressed by the Roman Catholic Church |
exorcist | One of the minor orders in the unreformed Western Church but now suppressed in the Roman Catholic Church |
lector, reader | someone who reads the lessons in a church service |
priest | A clergyman in Christian churches who has the authority to perform or administer various religious rites |
subdeacon | A clergyman an order below deacon |
Broader | status, position | The relative position or standing of things or especially persons in a society |
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