EPISCOPATES Antonyms
Best Opposite Words For EPISCOPATES
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clergy | nounn | |||||||
noun • in Christianity, clergymen collectively (as distinguished from the laity) | ||||||||
laity | nounn | |||||||
noun • in Christianity, members of a religious community that do not have the priestly responsibilities of ordained clergy | ||||||||
deacons | nounn | |||||||
noun • a Protestant layman who assists the minister • a cleric ranking just below a priest in Christian churches; one of the Holy Orders | ||||||||
elders | nounn | |||||||
noun • a person who is older than you are • any of numerous shrubs or small trees of temperate and subtropical Northern Hemisphere having white flowers and berrylike fruit • any of various church officers adjective satellite • used of the older of two persons of the same name especially used to distinguish a father from his son | ||||||||
laypeople | nounn | |||||||
noun • someone who is not a clergyman or a professional person | ||||||||
ministers | nounn | |||||||
noun • 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 verb • attend to the wants and needs of others • work as a minister | ||||||||
pastors | nounn | |||||||
noun • only the rose-colored starlings; in some classifications considered a separate genus • a person authorized to conduct religious worship | ||||||||
presbyters | nounn | |||||||
noun • an elder in the Presbyterian Church | ||||||||
priests | nounn | |||||||
noun • a clergyman in Christian churches who has the authority to perform or administer various religious rites; one of the Holy Orders • a person who performs religious duties and ceremonies in a non-Christian religion |