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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
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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