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Lay Ecclesial Ministry — is the relatively new category of pastoral ministers in the Catholic Church who serve the Church but are not ordained. Lay Ecclesial Ministers are coworkers with the bishop alongside presbyters, deacons, and theologians. OverviewSince Vatican II … Wikipedia
pastor, minister, priest — Use of these terms differs between sects and denominations and even from one community to another. The general term for persons wholly engaged in religious work and set apart from nonprofessional and nonordained worshipers is clergyman. A… … Dictionary of problem words and expressions
deacons — The office of deacon is common to most churches, tracing back to the early church at Jerusalem. Acts 6:1 6 describes their role as providing for the widows and managing the communal meals, freeing the elders for their ministerial duties prayer … Encyclopedia of Protestantism
assembly — Synonyms and related words: British Cabinet, Sanhedrin, US Cabinet, advisory body, architecture, assemblage, assemblee, assembly line, assembly line production, assignation, association, at home, ball, bench, bicameral legislature, board, board… … Moby Thesaurus
brethren — Synonyms and related words: assembly, aunt, auntie, blood brother, brother, bub, bubba, bud, buddy, churchgoers, class, congregation, country cousin, cousin, cousin once removed, cousin twice removed, daughter, father, first cousin, flock, fold,… … Moby Thesaurus
churchgoer — Synonyms and related words: Christian, God fearing man, accepter, adorer, assembly, beadsman, believer, brethren, catechumen, celebrant, chapelgoer, churchgoers, churchite, churchman, class, communicant, congregation, convert, daily communicant,… … Moby Thesaurus
civil — Synonyms and related words: absolute, accommodating, affable, agreeable, amiable, appropriate, aristocratic, attentive, authoritarian, autocratic, autonomous, becoming, bland, bureaucratic, civic, civilian, civilized, clubbable, clubbish, clubby … Moby Thesaurus
class — Synonyms and related words: account, adherents, advantageousness, agreeableness, allot, alphabetize, analyze, animal kingdom, antonomasia, appraise, appreciate, arrange, ashram, assembly, assess, assign, assort, auspiciousness, bearing,… … Moby Thesaurus
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fold — Synonyms and related words: KO, alveolation, alveolus, antrum, arena, armpit, assembly, average, bang, bar, barricade, basin, batten, batten down, be ruined, become insolvent, bend, bisect, bolt, bomb, bosom, bowl, break, brethren, bust, button,… … Moby Thesaurus
