Minister (Christianity)
In Christianity, a minister is a person who is given authority by a church or other religious group to do special jobs. These jobs can include teaching about the faith, leading services such as weddings, baptisms, or funerals, and giving spiritual help to people.
The word minister comes from the Latin word minister, which means "servant" or "helper".
Minister (Christianity) Media
Francis of Assisi with the ecclesiastical tonsure. Francis was an ordained deacon.
Gilbert White, an Anglican priest and pioneering naturalist and ornithologist
The Metropolitan Vladimir of Kiev, the first bishop to be martyred at the time of the Russian Revolution
An Anglican minister delivering a homily, dressed in choir habit with Canterbury cap
Scene of baptism. Stained glass from the Sainte-Chapelle of Paris, last quarter of the 12th century.
A bishop administering Confirmation. Rogier van der Weyden, The Seven Sacraments (detail), c. 1445.
Wedding of Maria Feodorovna and Alexander III of Russia. Painting by Mihály Zichy, 1867.