Pastor vs. Priest

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.

Priestnoun

a religious clergyman (clergywoman, clergyperson) who is trained to perform services or sacrifices at a church or temple

Priestnoun

a blunt tool, used for quickly stunning and killing fish

Priestnoun

(Mormonism) the highest office in the Aaronic priesthood

Priestverb

(transitive) To ordain as a priest.

Priestnoun

A presbyter elder; a minister

Priestnoun

One who officiates at the altar, or performs the rites of sacrifice; one who acts as a mediator between men and the divinity or the gods in any form of religion; as, Buddhist priests.

Priestverb

To ordain as priest.

Priestnoun

a clergyman in Christian churches who has the authority to perform or administer various religious rites; one of the Holy Orders

Priestnoun

a spiritual leader in a non-Christian religion

Priestnoun

an ordained minister of the Catholic, Orthodox, or Anglican Church, authorized to perform certain rites and administer certain sacraments

Priestnoun

a person who performs religious ceremonies and duties in a non-Christian religion

Priestnoun

a mallet used to kill fish caught when angling.

Priestverb

ordain to the priesthood

Priest

A priest is a religious leader authorized to perform the sacred rituals of a religion, especially as a mediatory agent between humans and one or more deities. They also have the authority or power to administer religious rites; in particular, rites of sacrifice to, and propitiation of, a deity or deities.