PROTESTANT DEACON Synonyms

• a clergyman or other person in religious orders

• a clergyman or other person in religious orders

• terms referring to the Judeo-Christian God

• emanating from God

• resulting from divine providence

• being or having the nature of a god

• devoted to or in the service or worship of a deity

• appropriate to or befitting a god

• being of such surpassing excellence as to suggest inspiration by the gods

• perceive intuitively or through some inexplicable perceptive powers

• search by divining, as if with a rod

• of or associated with a church (especially a Christian Church)

• a clergyman or other person in religious orders

• a person authorized to conduct religious worship

• a person appointed to a high office in the government

• a diplomat representing one government to another; ranks below ambassador

• the job of a head of a government department

• attend to the wants and needs of others

• work as a minister

• a person authorized to conduct religious worship

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

• a person authorized to conduct religious worship

• someone whose occupation is preaching the gospel

• a title of respect for a clergyman

• a member of the clergy and a spiritual leader of the Christian Church

• worthy of adoration or reverence

• a Roman Catholic priest who acts for another higher-ranking clergyman

• (Episcopal Church) a clergyman in charge of a chapel

• (Church of England) a clergyman appointed to act as priest of a parish

• a Protestant layman who assists the minister

• a cleric ranking just below a priest in Christian churches; one of the Holy Orders