All diocesan synonyms

noun diocesan

• administrator — An administrator is a person whose job involves helping to organize and supervise the way that an organization or institution functions.
• pontiff — any pontifex.
• pope — died 1690? Pueblo medicine man: led rebellion against the Spanish 1680.
• patriarch — the male head of a family or tribal line.
• director — a person or thing that directs.
• bishop — A bishop is a clergyman of high rank in the Roman Catholic, Anglican, and Orthodox churches.
• pastor — a minister or priest in charge of a church.
• preacher — a person whose occupation or function it is to preach the gospel.
• abbot — An abbot is the monk who is in charge of the other monks in a monastery or abbey.
• rector — a member of the clergy in charge of a parish in the Protestant Episcopal Church.
• dean — A dean is an important official at a university or college.
• divine — of or relating to a god, especially the Supreme Being.
• ecclesiastic — a member of the clergy or other person in religious orders.
• chaplain — A chaplain is a member of the Christian clergy who does religious work in a place such as a hospital, school, prison, or in the armed forces.
• prelate — an ecclesiastic of a high order, as an archbishop, bishop, etc.; a church dignitary.
• lecturer — a person who lectures.
• shepherd — a male given name.
• cleric — A cleric is a member of the clergy.
• clerk — A clerk is a person who works in an office, bank, or law court and whose job is to look after the records or accounts.
• missionary — a person sent by a church into an area to carry on evangelism or other activities, as educational or hospital work.
• monk — (James) Arthur ("Art") born 1957, U.S. football player.
• deacon — A deacon is a member of the clergy, for example in the Church of England, who is lower in rank than a priest.
• priest — a person whose office it is to perform religious rites, and especially to make sacrificial offerings.
• parson — a member of the clergy, especially a Protestant minister; pastor; rector.
• clergy — The clergy are the official leaders of the religious activities of a particular group of believers.
• archdeacon — An archdeacon is a high-ranking clergyman who works as an assistant to a bishop, especially in the Anglican church.
• archbishop — In the Roman Catholic, Orthodox, and Anglican Churches, an archbishop is a bishop of the highest rank, who is in charge of all the bishops and priests in a particular country or region.
• reverend — (initial capital letter) (used as a title of respect applied or prefixed to the name of a member of the clergy or a religious order): Reverend Timothy Cranshaw; Reverend Mother.
• angel — Angels are spiritual beings that some people believe are God's servants in heaven.
• metropolitan — of, noting, or characteristic of a metropolis or its inhabitants, especially in culture, sophistication, or in accepting and combining a wide variety of people, ideas, etc.
• primate — Ecclesiastical. an archbishop or bishop ranking first among the bishops of a province or country.
• cap — A cap is a soft, flat hat with a curved part at the front which is called a peak. Caps are usually worn by men and boys.
• coadjutor — a bishop appointed as assistant to a diocesan bishop
• overseer — a person who oversees; supervisor; manager: the overseer of a plantation.
• suffragan — assisting or auxiliary to, as applied to any bishop in relation to the archbishop or metropolitan who is his superior, or as applied to an assistant or subsidiary bishop who performs episcopal functions in a diocese but has no ordinary jurisdiction, as, in the Church of England, a bishop consecrated to assist the ordinary bishop of a see in part of his diocese.
• archer — An archer is someone who shoots arrows using a bow.
• mitre — to bestow a miter upon, or raise to a rank entitled to it.
• miter — the official headdress of a bishop in the Western Church, in its modern form a tall cap with a top deeply cleft crosswise, the outline of the front and back resembling that of a pointed arch.
• berretta — biretta
• vicar — Church of England. a person acting as priest of a parish in place of the rector, or as representative of a religious community to which tithes belong. the priest of a parish the tithes of which are impropriated and who receives only the smaller tithes or a salary.
• confessor — A confessor is a priest who hears a person's confession.
• curate — A curate is a clergyman in the Anglican Church who helps the priest.
• clergyperson — a member of the clergy
• clerical — Clerical jobs, skills, and workers are concerned with work that is done in an office.
• pulpiteer — a preacher by profession.
• abba — father (used of God)
• clergyman — A clergyman is a male member of the clergy.