Clergy
Clergy is the name for people who are leaders in their religious community. Their roles and functions vary, but usually they preside over specific rituals. They are also experts, and help establish the doctrines of their faith. Usually, there are specific rituals that make people become part of the clergy. Sometimes, clergy are elected by a group of people. The ritual that make people part of the clergy in Christianity is called ordination or consecration.
Not everyone can become part of the clergy. Different denominations exclude different groups of people.
Clergy Media
Catholic clergy at the consecration of the Sacred Heart Cathedral, Sarajevo (1889).
14th Dalai Lama, Tenzin Gyatso in 2007
Bishop Maurício Andrade, primate of the Anglican Episcopal Church of Brazil, gives a crosier to Bishop Saulo Barros
Archbishop Jose S. Palma with his assistant ministers during Pontifical High Mass
Orthodox Christian clergy: bishop (right, at altar), priest (left), and two deacons (in gold)
Rabbi Moshe Feinstein, a leading Rabbinical authority for Orthodox Jewry
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