Pastor vs. Minister

Pastornoun

A shepherd; someone who tends to a flock of animals.

Pastornoun

Someone with spiritual authority over a group of people

Pastornoun

A minister or a priest in a Christian church.

Pastorverb

To serve a congregation as pastor

Pastornoun

A shepherd; one who has the care of flocks and herds.

Pastornoun

A guardian; a keeper; specifically (Eccl.), a minister having the charge of a church and parish.

Pastornoun

A species of starling (Pastor roseus), native of the plains of Western Asia and Eastern Europe. Its head is crested and glossy greenish black, and its back is rosy. It feeds largely upon locusts.

Pastornoun

a person authorized to conduct religious worship

Pastornoun

only the rose-colored starlings; in some classifications considered a separate genus

Pastor

A pastor (abbreviated as or {singular}, or {plural}), is the leader of a Christian congregation who also gives advice and counsel to people from the community or congregation. In Lutheranism, Catholicism, Eastern Orthodoxy, Oriental Orthodoxy and Anglicanism, pastors are always ordained.

Ministernoun

A person who is trained to preach, to perform religious ceremonies and to afford pastoral care at a Protestant church.

Ministernoun

A politician who heads a ministry (national or regional government department for public service).

Ministernoun

At a diplomacy, the rank of diplomat directly below ambassador.

Ministernoun

A servant; a subordinate; an officer or assistant of inferior rank; hence, an agent, an instrument.

Ministerverb

(transitive) To attend to (the needs of); to tend; to take care (of); to give aid; to give service.

Ministerverb

to function as a clergyman or as the officiant in church worship

Ministerverb

To afford, to give, to supply.

Ministernoun

A servant; a subordinate; an officer or assistant of inferior rank; hence, an agent, an instrument.

Ministernoun

An officer of justice.

Ministernoun

One to whom the sovereign or executive head of a government intrusts the management of affairs of state, or some department of such affairs.

Ministernoun

A representative of a government, sent to the court, or seat of government, of a foreign nation to transact diplomatic business.

Ministernoun

One who serves at the altar; one who performs sacerdotal duties; the pastor of a church duly authorized or licensed to preach the gospel and administer the sacraments.

Ministerverb

To furnish or apply; to afford; to supply; to administer.

Ministerverb

To act as a servant, attendant, or agent; to attend and serve; to perform service in any office, sacred or secular.

Ministerverb

To supply or to things needful; esp., to supply consolation or remedies; as, to minister to the sick.

Ministernoun

a person authorized to conduct religious worship

Ministernoun

a person appointed to a high office in the government;

Ministernoun

a diplomat representing one government to another; ranks below ambassador

Ministernoun

the job of a head of a government department

Ministerverb

attend to the wants and needs of others;

Ministerverb

work as a minister;