English > spiritual leader: 1 sense > noun 1, person | Meaning | A leader in religious or sacred affairs. |
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| Instances | Gandhi, Mahatma Gandhi, Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi | political and spiritual leader during India's struggle with Great Britain for home rule |
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| Narrower | Catholicos | The ecclesiastical title of the leaders of the Nestorian and Armenian churches |
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| Evangelist | (when capitalized) any of the spiritual leaders who are assumed to be authors of the Gospels in the New Testament |
| cantor, hazan | The official of a synagogue who conducts the liturgical part of the service and sings or chants the prayers intended to be performed as solos |
| clergyman, reverend, man of the cloth | A member of the clergy and a spiritual leader of the Christian Church |
| patriarch | title for the heads of the Eastern Orthodox Churches (in Istanbul and Alexandria and Moscow and Jerusalem) |
| pope, Catholic Pope, Roman Catholic Pope, pontiff, Holy Father, Vicar of Christ, Bishop of Rome | The head of the Roman Catholic Church |
| priest, non-Christian priest | A person who performs religious duties and ceremonies in a non-Christian religion |
| rabbi | spiritual leader of a Jewish congregation |
| Broader | leader | A person who rules or guides or inspires others |
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| Spanish | clérigo, líder espiritual |
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| Catalan | líder espiritual |
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